Ecological Archives E087-002-A5

**James W. Raich, Ann E. Russell, Kanehiro Kitayama, William J. Parton, and Peter M. Vitousek. 2006. Temperature influences carbon accumulation in moist tropical forests. Ecology 87:76–87.**

Appendix E. Carbon storage (Mg/ha) in mature moist broad-leaved evergreen tropical forests. See Notes at end of table for details.

Site	MAT (°C)	Aboveground live biomass	Root biomass	Surface litter	SOC (top 1 m)	Coarse woody debris	Total living mass	Total detritus
Brazil, Manaus	27.2	195	32	3	135	12	227	150
Costa Rica, La Selva, Ultisols	25.8	75	40	2	204	25	115	232
Ivory Coast, Banco plateau	26.2	246	24	1	215^‡	(25)^†	270	241
Jamaica, Mor Ridge	15.5	100	26	5	250^§	4	126	259
Malaysia, Pasoh	26.0	228	10^\|\|	2	70	24	238	95
Malaysia, Sabah, Q1700	16.7	168	37^\|\|\|\|	3	88	(17)^†	204	108
Malaysia, Sabah, S0700	23.3	210	45^\|\|\|\|	3	62	(21)^†	254	86
Malaysia, Sabah, S1700	18.3	141	31^\|\|\|\|	3	93	(14)^†	172	110
Malaysia, Sabah, S2700	12.6	148	32^\|\|\|\|	3	151	(15)^†	180	168
Malaysia, Sabah, S3100	9.9	103	23^\|\|\|\|	4	262	(10)^†	126	276
Malaysia, Sabah, U0700	23.0	266	56^\|\|\|\|	3	94	(27)^†	322	124
Malaysia, Sabah, U1700	16.7	114	25^\|\|\|\|	4	86	(11)^†	139	101
Malaysia, Sabah, U2700	12.0	59	14^\|\|\|\|	4	84	(6)^†	72	94
Malaysia, Sabah, U3100	10.1	18	4^\|\|\|\|	2	67	(2)^†	22	70
New Guinea	13.0	149	19	3	600	5	168	609
Puerto Rico, El Verde	23.1	96	35	3	114	(10)^†	130	126
Puerto Rico, colorado forest	21.1	81	24	4	190^‡‡	(8)^†	105	203
Thailand, Khao Chong	27.2	160^¶	15^#	1	75	(16)^†	175	92
Venezuela, San Eusebio	12.6	167	27	3	329^††	11	194	344
Venezuela, T-mf	25.5	179	29^§§	2	160	17	208	179
Venezuela, T-LM-mf	15.0	173	38^§§	3	253	21	211	277
Venezuela, T-M-wf	10.5	157	35^§§	3	257	17	192	277

Notes: Soil organic carbon (SOC) refers to the top 1.0 m of soil unless otherwise noted. We assumed that biomass and litter components were 48% C, and that soil organic matter was 58% C. For uniformity, data within columns are presented to the same level of certainty: MAT is mean annual temperature.

† Coarse woody debris was not measured; its mass was estimated to be 10% of aboveground biomass (Delaney et al. 1998, this study).

^‡ Total SOC (0–50 cm depth) from Bernhard-Reversat et al. (1978). Total SOC at 50–100 cm depth was determined from a mean soil C content of 0.6% and a soil bulk density of 1.5 g/cm³ (Huttel and Bernhard-Reversat 1975).

^§ Total SOC from 0-45 cm soil depth only.

^|| Root biomass includes roots <1 cm diameter only.

^¶ Large dipterocarps were removed in the past.

^# Root biomass estimated by regression, based on sampling roots of three small trees.

^†† Includes humus above the mineral soil.

^‡‡ Total SOC in the surface 50 cm only.

^§§ Root biomass was estimated from life-zone-mean root:shoot following Sanford and Cuevas (1996). Data represent the means of multiple sites at different locations within the same life zone.

^|||| Root biomass was estimated using the allometric equation of Ogawa et al. (1965) (see Khao Chong, Thailand).

References: Brazil, Manaus (Klinge 1976, DeAngelis et al. 1981); ); Costa Rica, La Selva, ultisols (Raich 1983, Sanford et al. 1994, Clark and Clark 2000, Clark et al. 2002, Veldkamp et al. 2003); Ivory Coast (Bernhard-Reversat 1974, Bernhard-Reversat et al. 1978); Jamaica (Tanner 1977, 1980a, 1980b, 1981, 1985); Malaysia, Pasoh (Kato et al. 1978, Yoda 1978, DeAngelis et al. 1981); Malaysia, Sabah, Mt. Kinabalu sedimentary (S), ultrabasic (U) and quaternary (Q) substrates (Kitayama and Aiba 2002a, b); New Guinea (Edwards and Grubb 1977); Puerto Rico, El Verde (Odum 1970, Brown et al. 1983); Puerto Rico, colorado forest (Weaver and Murphy 1990); Thailand, Khao Chong (Ogawa et al. 1965, Yoda 1967, Yoda and Kira 1969); Venezuela, San Eusebio (Steinhardt and Fassbender 1979, Grimm and Fassbender 1981); Venezuela T-mf, T-LM-mf and T-M-wf (Delaney et al. 1997, 1998).

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