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Table 1 Periodic assessment in China of the amounts of carbon in forests and plantations, density and accumulation between 1949 and 1998

From: Development of monitoring and assessment of forest biomass and carbon storage in China

Period

Forest carbon (Pg)

Plantation carbon (Pg)

Forest carbon density (Mg · ha−1)

Annual carbon accumulation (Pg · a−1)

1949

5.06

49.45

1950–1962

4.58

46.67

−0.040

1973–1976

4.44

0.27

43.83

−0.010

1977–1981

4.38

0.33

45.75

−0.013

1984–1988

4.45

0.52

43.53

0.011

1989–1993

4.63

0.61

42.58

0.035

1994–1998

4.75

0.72

44.91

0.026

  1. Source: Fang et al. ([2001]).