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Table 2 Carbon density (CD) and carbon stock (CS) of natural, planted, and all forests

From: Similar carbon density of natural and planted forests in the Lüliang Mountains, China

Sub-region

Natural forests

Planted forests

All forests

CD (Mg ha−1)

CS (106 Mg)

CD (Mg ha−1)

CS (106 Mg)

CD (Mg ha−1)

CS (106 Mg)

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

West

126.7a

34.8

20.9

117.8b

34.2

74.8

119.7b

34.5

95.7

Central

129.1a

53.4

106.2

132.0a

57.1

23.2

129.6a

53.1

129.4

East

90.8b

39.8

14.3

113.7b

46.1

18.4

102.4c

44.5

32.7

Entire region

123.7

51.0

141.4

119.7

40.3

116.4

121.8

46.4

257.8

  1. SD, standard deviation. Within a column, means with different letters are significantly different (p < 0.05)