Assessment of Carbon Sequestration in Private Forests across Two Different Physiographic Regions of Nepal: Implications for Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation

Table 4

Total biomass and carbon in different pools of both PFs.

S. No.	Carbon pools	Terai PFs		Hilly PFs
		Biomass (t·ha^−1)	Carbon (t·ha^−1)	Biomass (t·ha^−1)	Carbon (t·ha^−1)
1	Aboveground trees	175.65	82.56	75.27	35.38
2	Aboveground saplings	2.07	0.97	4.13	1.94
3	Belowground trees	45.67	21.46	19.57	9.20
4	Belowground saplings	0.54	0.26	1.07	0.50
Total		223.93	105.25	100.04	47.02

The results indicated a p value of 0.008996, which falls below the 0.05 significance level, signifying a substantial disparity in the total biomass and carbon values between the private forests of the Terai and the hilly region.