Modus operandi in assessing biomass and carbon in rubber plantations under varying climatic conditions

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-58

  Munasinghe, E S ^a   Rodrigo, V H L ^a   Gunawardena, U A D P ^b  

^a Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SRI JAYEWARDENEPURA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889836017     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: 14694441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479713000410     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Ambily, K. K., Meenakumari, T., Jessy, M.D., Ulaganathan, A. and Nair, N.U. (2012). Carbon sequestration potential of RRII 400 series clones of Hevea brasiliensis. Rubber Science 25(2):233-240.
2. Anon (2009a). Yield profiles of outstanding clones. Advisory Circular, Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.
3. Anon (2009b). Approved afforestation and reforestation baseline and monitoring methodology, AR-AM0004/Version 04, Sectoral Scope:14, EB 50, CDM Executive Board, UNFCCC. Available from: http://www.cdm.unfccc.int/ methodologies/ARmethodologies/approved. Accessed 22 February 2011.
4. Anon (2010). Rubber Statistical Bulletin 64. Wembly, UK: International Rubber Study Group.
5. Anon (2012). Final decisions adopted by COP 18 and CMP 8. Doha Climate Change Conference November 2012. UNFCCC. Available from: http://www.unfccc.int/ meetings/doha-nov2012/meetings/6815/php/view/decisions.php. Accessed 22 February 2013.
6. Ayanaba, A. and Jenkinson, D. S. (1990). Decomposition of carbon-14 labeled ryegrass and maize under tropical conditions. Soil Science Society of America Journal 54:112-115.
7. Cheng, C. M., Wang, R. and Jiang, J. (2007). Variation in soil fertility and carbon sequestration by planting Hevea brasiliensis in Hainan Island, China. Journal of Environmental Sciences 19(3):348-352.
8. Dassanayake, A. R. and Senerath, A. (1999). Soil survey and classification. In Soils of the Wet Zone of Sri Lanka:Morphology, Characterization and Classification, 23-36 (Eds R. B. Mapa, S. Somasiri and S. Nagarajah). Sri Lanka: Soil Science Society of Sri Lanka.
9. Dey, S. K., Chaudhuri, D., Vinod, K. K., Pothen, J. and Sethuraj, M. R. (1996). Estimation of biomass in Hevea clones by regression method: 2 relation of girth and biomass for mature trees of clone RRIM 600. Indian Journal of Natural Rubber Research 9(1):40-43.
10. Payne, R. W. (2008). GenStat: The guide to GenStat release 11. Part 2: Statistics. UK: Lawes Agricultural Trust.
11. Philip, M. S. (1994). Measuring Trees and Forests. UK: CAB International.
12. Piper, C. S. (1950). Soil and Plant Analysis. Australia: University of Adelaide.
13. Punyawardena, B. V. R. (2005). Climate of the intermediate zone of Sri Lanka. In Soils of the Intermediate Zone of Sri Lanka: Morphology, Characterization and Classification, 6-18. (Eds R. B. Mapa, A. R. Dassanayake and H. B. Nayakekorale). Sri Lanka: Soil Science Society of Sri Lanka.
14. Rodrigo, V. H. L., Iqbal, S. M. M. and Munasinghe, E. S. (2009). Rural livelihood and rubber cultivation in Eastern province of Sri Lanka. Journal of the Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka 89:58-69.
15. Rodrigo, V. H. L., Munasinghe, E. S. and Gunawardena, U. A. D. P. (2005). Development of a simple protocol for in situ assessments of timber, biomass and carbon in the rubber crop. Proceedings of the International Natural Rubber Conference, India, 246-255.
16. Rodrigo, V. H. L., Nugawela, A., Sivanathan, A., Witharama, W. R. G. and Jayasinghe, W. K. (2000). Rubber cum sugarcane intercropping: a suitable cropping system for the farmers in the intermediate zone of Sri Lanka. Journal of the Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka 83:62-74.
17. Rodrigo, V. H. L., Stirling, C. M., Teklehaimanot, Z. and Nugawela, A. (2001). Intercropping with banana to improve fractional interception and radiation-use efficiency of immature rubber plantations. Field Crops Research 69(3):237-249.
18. Rojo-Martinez, G. E., Jasso-Mata, J., Vargas-Hernandez, J., Palma-Lopez, D. and Velazquez-Marti{dotless}nez, A. (2005). Aerial biomass in commercial rubber plantations (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.) in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Agrociencia 39:449-456.
19. Saengruksawong, C., Khamyong, S., Anongrak, N. and Pinthong, J. (2012). Growths and carbon stocks of para rubber plantations on Phonpisai Soil Series in Northeastern Thailand. Rubber Thai Journal 1:1-18.
20. Shorrocks, V. M., Templeton, J. K. and Iyer, G. C. (1965). Mineral nutrition, growth and nutrition cycle of Hevea brasiliensis. III. The relationship between girth and shoot dry weight. Journal of Rubber Research Institute Malaysia 19:85-92.
21. Sivakumaran, S., Kheong, Y. F., Hassan, J. and Rahman, A. (2000). Carbon sequestration in rubber: implication and economic models to fund continued cultivation. In Proceedings of the Indonesian Rubber Conference and IRRDB Symposium, Bogor, Indonesia, 12-14 September 2000, 79-102.
22. Specht, A. and West, P.W. (2003). Estimation of biomass and sequestered carbon on farmforest plantations in northern New South Wales, Australia. Biomass and Bioenergy 25:363-379.
23. Wauters, J. B., Coudert, S., Grallien, E., Jonard, M. and Ponette, Q. (2008). Carbon stock in rubber tree plantations in Western Ghana and Mato Grosso (Brazil). Forest Ecology and Management 255:2347-2361.