| dc.description.abstract | NOVITA ARIANI SITORUS : The Estimate of Carbon Stocks Above Ground
Biomass at Green Open Space in Medan City. Under the supervision of
RAHMAWATY and ABDUL RAUF.
Global warming is the main environmental problems of this millennium.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main cause for global warming. Green open space
such as urban forest and urban park play a role in mitigating global warming in
urban areas because the vegetation that is capable to absorb CO2 from the
atmosphere through photosynthesis. So its need to calculating carbon stock at
urban forests and urban parks at Medan City. The purpose of this research is to
know what kinds of plant that planting and how much carbon stock, as well as
map the distribution of plant at green open space Medan City. The research was
conducted since January until May 2013. The research was conducted at Urban
Forest Taman Beringin, Sports Park and Recreation Gadjah Mada, and Urban
Park Ahmad Yani. The sample of green open space had taken by non destructive
sampling method, the introduction of plants species and measurements had taken
by census method, and the method of carbon stock data counting was using non
destructive sampling, namely the model allometric.
The results showed that there are 44 species of trees and 5 groups of
non tree species. Value of the highest carbon stocks contained in Urban Forest
Taman Beringin is 104,21975 Ton/Ha. Value of the carbon stock in Urban Park
Ahmad Yani and Sports Park and Recreation Gadjah Mada is 61,48555 Ton/Ha
and 30,38908 Ton/Ha. Urban Park Ahmad Yani design is spread out and has a
stratified structure of the two, while The Sports Park and Recreation Gadjah
Mada and Urban Park Ahmad Yani design is shaped spread. | en_US |
