Estimates of Volume and Carbon Stock Removals in Miombo Woodlands of Mainland Tanzania

Table 2

Volume, biomass, and carbon removals by vegetation, land use, and ownership types.

Miombo management categories	Miombo management categories subdivision	Volume (m^3 ha^−1 year^−1)	Biomass (t ha^−1 year^−1)		Carbon (tC ha^−1 year^−1)
			AGB	BGB	AGC	BGC
Vegetation types	Closed woodlands (crown cover >40%)	1.3 ± 0.38^a	0.95 ± 0.27^a	0.33 ± 0.08^a	0.46 ± 0.13	0.16 ± 0.04
	Open woodlands (crown cover between 10 and 40%)	1.8 ± 0.39^a	1.28 ± 0.25^a	0.44 ± 0.07^a	0.63 ± 0.12	0.22 ± 0.03
	Woodlands with scattered cropland	1.91 ± 0.79^a	1.47 ± 0.60^a	0.66 ± 0.27^a	0.72 ± 0.30	0.33 ± 0.13
Land use	Production forest	2.06 ± 0.63^abc	1.45 ± 0.41^abc	0.48 ± 0.11^ab	0.71 ± 0.20	0.23 ± 0.10
	Protection forest	1.15 ± 0.40^abc	0.85 ± 0.28^abc	0.32 ± 0.09^ab	0.41 ± 0.14	0.16 ± 0.07
	Wildlife reserve	0.54 ± 0.17^bc	0.4 ± 0.12^bc	0.15 ± 0.04^b	0.2 ± 0.06	0.07 ± 0.03
	Shifting cultivation	3.63 ± 1.09^ab	2.71 ± 0.08^ab	1.08 ± 0.30^a	1.33 ± 0.39	0.53 ± 0.19
	Agriculture	2.54 ± 1.44^abc	1.93 ± 1.08^abc	0.8 ± 0.44^ab	0.94 ± 0.53	0.39 ± 0.26
	Grazing land	2.02 ± 1.39^a	1.37 ± 0.87^a	0.4 ± 0.18^ab	0.67 ± 0.43	0.19 ± 0.21
	Built-up areas	0.4 ± 0.39^bc	0.32 ± 0.30^bc	0.16 ± 0.14^b	0.16 ± 0.15	0.08 ± 0.07
	Water body/swamp	1.26 ± 0.93^abc	0.97 ± 0.78^abc	0.41 ± 0.39^ab	0.48 ± 0.35	0.2 ± 0.11
	Other lands	0.29 ± 0.18^c	0.23 ± 0.11^c	0.1 ± 0.09^b	0.11 ± 0.06	0.05 ± 0.21
Ownership type	Central government land	0.75 ± 0.25^a	0.55 ± 0.18^b	0.21 ± 0.06^a	0.27 ± 0.09	0.13 ± 0.03
	Local government land	1.26 ± 0.50^a	0.93 ± 0.36^ab	0.35 ± 0.13^a	0.46 ± 0.18	0.22 ± 0.06
	Village land	2.05 ± 0.54^a	1.45 ± 0.35^ab	0.49 ± 0.09^a	0.71 ± 0.17	0.35 ± 0.05
	Private land	2.67 ± 0.99^a	1.95 ± 0.68^a	0.72 ± 0.20^a	0.96 ± 0.34	0.47 ± 0.10
	General land	2.3 ± 1.29^a	1.68 ± 0.93^ab	0.59 ± 0.32^a	0.82 ± 0.46	0.4 ± 0.16
	Not know	0.77 ± 0.22^a	0.59 ± 0.17^b	0.25 ± 0.05^a	0.29 ± 0.04	0.14 ± 0.01

Note: volume and/or biomass with the same superscript letters in the category are not significantly different (p < 0.05).