Escalating the small-sized community green spaces^ role as the carbon storage in costal town Intan Nurul Aini (a*), Hayati Sari Hasibuan (a), Tarsoen Waryono (b)
a) School of Environmental Science University of Indonesia Central Jakarta, Special Capital Region of Jakarta
*intan.nurul81[at]alumni.ui.ac.id
b) Department of Geography, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia, Depok, West Java
Abstract
The community green space type is well-known as a public place with the prominent aesthetic value whereas this green space type is also potential to have the prominent ecological value because of the vegetation cover. This study was estimated the above-ground biomass and carbon stock of each tree species within the community green spaces in both coastal and terrestrial habitat to select some potential species to be more developed within both community green spaces in order to escalate the ecological value of the green spaces (carbon storage in a town area). All woody plants with diameter at breast height (dbh) ≥- 20 cm were identified by census method within 3 sampling plots in both Laman Boenda Park (Site 1) and Pamedan Ahmad Yani Park (Site 2). This study found that the tree community in Site 2 stores higher amount of carbon stock (15,433 kg/ha) than in Site 1 (1,744 kg/ha). The number of individual trees is the main driving factor of the amount of carbon stock in both sites. Some species from Lauraceae, Fabaceae, and Meliaceae that are extremely tolerant of small mineral content soils, salinity, and lack of water content should be more developed in Site 1, specifically.
Keywords: Coastal, carbon, community, green spaces, tree
