| Sumario: |
Accumulate carbon dioxide in the environment causes overheating to the
atmosphere, contributing to the Global Climatic Change. On the contrary, forest
are ecosystems with a great capacity to fix and storage the Carbon. However,
these ecosystems are so vulnerable and some human activities destroy and
degrade them quickly, releasing the Carbon also limiting the capacity to capture
the Carbon from the atmosphere. The objective of this research is to quantify the
biomass, storage Carbon of the fallen leaves and the Organic Carbon retained
from the soil of the A and B studied lands of the Jardin Botanico de la
Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, in Panama. It meants to take samples of
fallen leaves periodically during 12 months and to get real data about vegetable
biomass production and storaged Carbon. Therefore two parcels of land with
2000 m2 were divided each 100 m2 and baskets were installed to catch the fallen
leaves besides, the were classified as leaves, branches, flower, stems, barks,
fruits, seeds, associated vegetables and vegetable rests. The total biomass
production was 20.6 ton\ha\year (10.3 ton\ha\year), this is equal to 5.1
ton\ha\year of storaged Carbon in the fallen leaves and 4.6% (91 ton\ha\year) of
Organic Carbon in the soilof studied lands. The biomass production varied
significantly (p<.05) between the components of the fallen leaves and among the
months, therefore it was similar between the lands. These data can be so
valuable in the basic line of the forestallresource of Panama country as a result
of the Marco Convention of Climatic Change because Panama is a signed State
of this besides a member from Kyoto Protocol.
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