Table 2 |
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Physiographic zone wise biomass details of India for the year 2003 |
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S.no. |
Physiographic zone |
Growing stock (Mm3) |
Biomass in Mt (AGB + BGB) |
Forest floor biomass (Mt) |
Total Forest biomass (80% of fresh weight) (Mt) |
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1 |
Western Himalayas |
1159.880 |
1645.747 |
24.686 |
1336.346 |
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2 |
Eastern Himalayas |
549.354 |
779.474 |
11.629 |
632.932 |
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3 |
North East |
486.766 |
690.669 |
10.360 |
560.823 |
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4 |
North Plains |
284.986 |
404.365 |
6.065 |
328.344 |
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5 |
Easter Plains |
390.254 |
553.730 |
8.306 |
449.630 |
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6 |
Western Plains |
104.654 |
148.493 |
2.227 |
120.576 |
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7 |
Central highlands |
241.133 |
342.142 |
5.132 |
277.820 |
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8 |
North Decan |
372.991 |
529.234 |
7.938 |
429.738 |
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9 |
East Decan |
719.584 |
1021.014 |
15.315 |
829.063 |
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10 |
South Decan |
460.812 |
653.843 |
9.808 |
530.920 |
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11 |
Western Ghats |
556.057 |
788.986 |
11.835 |
640.656 |
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12 |
Eastern Ghats |
576.267 |
817.661 |
12.265 |
663.940 |
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13 |
West Coast |
260.443 |
369.540 |
5.543 |
300.066 |
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14 |
East Coast |
250.571 |
355.533 |
5.333 |
288.692 |
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Total |
6413.752 |
9100.438 |
136.506 |
7389.556 |
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Source: The growing stock data had been taken from the FSI reports [9,28,29] |
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Sheikh et al. Carbon Balance and Management 2011 6:15 doi:10.1186/1750-0680-6-15 |
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