CREATION OF CARBON FARMS ON DISTURBED LANDS
S. V. Zalesov, K. A. Bashegurov, A. E. Osipenko, R. A. Osipenko, I. V. Predeina
Ural State Forestry Engineering University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Keywords: climate change, carbon polygons, carbon dioxide, disturbed lands, deposit
Abstract
The climate change observed on our planet recent decades most scientists explain by the increase in the atmosphere the share of greenhouse gases. One of them is carbon dioxide, which is released during volcanic eruptions, burning of coal, peat and oil products. Among the ways to minimize carbon dioxide in the atmospheric air it is possible to single out its deposition by plants during the growth process. We succeeded in analyzing the possibility of creating carbon farms on disturbed lands. These farms are created in the process of reclamation biological stage by planting the most productive in a given region forest crops of various species and forms of woody plants. Based on the materials of the trial plots, the accumulation of wood and carbon deposited in was analyzed on the example of disturbed in the process of mining and processing of resources these lands mineral as well as on gold dump. In particular, it was established that at the golden dump, the stock of only stem wood Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris L.) in artificial plantations of 30-years age is 290 m3/ha, which corresponds 107.3 t/ha deposited carbon. The creation of carbon farms on chrysotile asbestos waste dumps ensures the deposition of 145 t/ha of carbon in the wood by the age of 42 years, which corresponds to 3.45 t/ha annually. When creating carbon farms on exhausted clay quarries, by the age of 40 years, the amount of carbon deposited in the wood is 142.67 t/ha, which corresponds to the annual deposition of only 3.57 t/ha of carbon from atmospheric air by the forest stand. The obtained data indicate the effectiveness of creating carbon farms on disturbed lands in the Middle Ural taiga forest region by planting Scots pine forest crops.
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