• Alok Kumar
• Ravindra Singh
• Sadhana Chaurasia

The increasing concentration of CO2 and other GHGs in the atmosphere is now widely recognized as the leading cause of global warming. The continued increase in its concentration in the atmosphere is believed to be accelerated by human activities such as burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Carbon sequestration can be defined as the removal of CO2 from atmosphere into green plants where it can be stored indefinitely. Forests can be regarded as major sinks and most appropriate land management systems for mitigating atmospheric carbon dioxide. The carbon fixation / carbon concentration estimated in certain forest area indicated that there are certain tree species with high ability to fix atmospheric carbon dioxide into their biomass. The large variability in carbon fixation among the species exhibit variability in the capacity of conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide load to organic carbon to be stored in plants biomass. In this paper an attempt has been made to study the Phyto-diversity (tree species) and CO2 sequestration by selected forest area. The study site Anusuiya (Sedhaunhan) beat has area of 19.85 Km2 consisting of 9 compartments. In this study 29 tree species were observed and total carbon sequestration was found 7159.88kg/year. The frequency and density of tree species was also calculated. The maximum density 13.33 was observed for Lagerstroemia parviflora followed by 13.22 Diospyros melanoxylon and minimum density 0 .11for Cassia fistula, Catunaregum nilotica, Dalbergia sissoo, Haldinia cordifolia, and Schleichera oleosa.

Global warming, carbon fixation, Sequestration, Phyto- Diversity, Forest

"Carbon Sequestration and Phyto-Diversity of tree species with special reference to Anusuiya beat of Chitrakoot Forest Range", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no.f288-f294, September-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309536.pdf

"Carbon Sequestration and Phyto-Diversity of tree species with special reference to Anusuiya beat of Chitrakoot Forest Range", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no. ppf288-f294, September-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309536.pdf