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Table 4 Mean tree biomass (dry weight), carbon content (kg) and carbon stock (t CO2/1000 stems per hectare) for 5-year-old trees

From: Biomass and root attributes of eight of New Zealand’s most common indigenous evergreen conifer and broadleaved forest species during the first 5 years of establishment

Botanical name

Common name

Mean tree biomass (kg)

Carbon content (kg)

Carbon stock (t CO2/1000 spha)

Coniferous species

Agathis australis

Kauri

0.32 (0.03)a

0.16 (0.02)a

0.53 (0.05)a

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides

Kahikatea

1.60 (0.24)bc

0.80 (0.12)bc

2.64 (0.40)bc

Dacrydium cupressinum

Rimu

1.56 (0.13)c

0.78 (0.06)c

2.58 (0.21)c

Podocarpus totara

Totara

2.59 (0.32)d

1.30 (0.16)d

4.28 (0.53)d

Prumnopitys ferruginea

Miro

0.52 (0.09)a

0.26 (0.04)a

0.85 (0.15)a

Prumnopitys taxifolia

Matai

0.72 (0.07)ab

0.36 (0.03)ab

1.18 (0.12)ab

Broadleaved species

Alectryon excelsus

Titoki

1.49 (0.23)c

0.75 (0.12)c

2.47 (0.39)c

Vitex lucens

Puriri

4.28 (0.92)e

2.14 (0.46)e

7.07 (1.52)e

  1. Values in parentheses represent standard error of the mean. Values with different letters, within each parameter, were significantly different (Student-Newman-Keuls P = 0.05). The carbon stock values do not include woody debris or fine litter