Review on Selected Church Forests of Ethiopia: Implication for Plant Species Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation

Table 5

Summarized studies on the role of some Church forests for climate change mitigation in Ethiopia.

No	Location of Church Forest	Number of sites studied	Average forest area (ha)	Mean carbon stock (t ha^−1)					Source
				AGBC	BGBC	SOC	LC	Total carbon stock
1	Teklehaymanot Monastery Forest, Southeastern Ethiopia	1	36.3	159 ± 30	42 ± 7.78	127.9	—	328.9	[55]
2	South Gondar, Amhara National Regional State, Northern Ethiopia	28	—	168	—	—	—	168	[2]
3	Church Forests in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	1	3.714	129.85	25.97	135.94	17.83	309.59	[49]
4	Woji Abune Aregawi Debere Bereket Church Forest, Northern Ethiopia	1	21.8	33.46	8.70	86.33	2.16	130.65	[68]
5	Montogera Estifanos Church Forest, Northern Ethiopia	1	7.5	58.76	15.28	76.52	2.37	152.93	[68]
6	Mai-Anbesa Kidane Miheret Monastery Forest, Northern Ethiopia	1	33	6.00	1.47	121.90	1.33	130.7	[68]
7	Emba Kidest Arsema Mekane Andinet Monastery Forest, Northern Ethiopia	1	16.9	0.71	0.18	116.01	1.33	118.23	[68]
8	Zequala Monastery Forest, Western Ethiopia	1	197	237.20	47.60	57.62	6.99	342.47	[69]
9	Tara Gedam Forest, Northern Ethiopia	1	875	306.37	61.52	274.32	0.90	642.21	[70]
10	Meskel Gedam Forest, Northern Ethiopia	1		146.34	29.27	131.79	3.03	310.43	[71]
11	Kotebe St. Gabriel Church, Central Ethiopia	1	4.02	155.47	31.09	0.89	117.1	308.57	[51]
12	AbunAregawi Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	7.4	183.20	26.24	0.82	120.3	337.96	[51]
13	St.Urael church forest, Central Ethiopia	1	0.34	112.87	20.14	0.98	131.1	265.43	[51]
14	Taeka Negest Bata Mariem Monastery forest, Central Ethiopia	1	2.26	103.06	20.61	1.1	99.9	226.93	[51]
15	St. Eyakem Wehana Church, Central Ethiopia	1	1.29	105.31	21.84	0.88	112.1	241.42	[51]
16	St. Estifanos Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	1.39	76.32	15.26	0.83	125.9	219.7	[51]
17	Saelite Meheretst Marry Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	2.72	55.21	11.04	0.79	89.6	159.36	[51]
								18	CMC St. Michael Church, Central Ethiopia	1	1.16	43.20	8.64	0.83	118.2	172.03	[51]
19	Lamberet St. Kidanemiheret Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	1.56	59.97	11.99	0.98	87.2	161.7	[51]
20	Lamberet St. Medhanialem Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	1.35	56.58	11.316	0.84	91.6	161.686	[51]
								21		Birhanate Alem Petros wo Pawulos Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	0.126	30.94	6.19	3.54	99.77	140.566	[48]
22	Genete Tsige Kidus Giyorgis church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	0.765	187.04	37.41	7.36	131.58	364.155	[48]
23	Debre Keraniyo Madihanalem Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	0.209	51.25	10.25	4.59	158.06	224.359	[48]
24	Re’ese Adbarat Entoto Kidist Mariam Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	0.082	20.03	4.01	6.59	162.27	192.982	[48]
25	Menbere Tsebaot Kidist Silasse Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	1.815	444.15	88.83	3.52	144.23	682.545	[48]
26	Yeka Debre Sahil Kidus Michael Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	0.086	21.13	4.23	3.5	128.37	157.316	[48]
27	St. Geberial and Medhaniakea Church Forest, Southern Ethiopia	2	—	61.4	12.7		48.65	122.75	[41]

Note. AGBC: above-ground biomass carbon; BGBC: below-ground biomass carbon; SOC: soil organic carbon; LC: litter carbon.