{"id":329,"date":"2020-07-29T19:16:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iss.madlabsk.ca\/wordpress\/?page_id=329"},"modified":"2020-08-04T20:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:48:15","slug":"the-best-trees-for-sequestering-carbon-in-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iss.madlabsk.ca\/wordpress\/the-best-trees-for-sequestering-carbon-in-saskatchewan\/","title":{"rendered":"The best trees for storing carbon in Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The best tree commonly found in Saskatchewan shelterbelts for carbon sequestration is the hybrid poplar. A 1km row of hybrid poplar is estimated to sequester an average of 6.03 &#8211; 6.54 tonnes of carbon per year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average estimated carbon sequestration rate of six common shelterbelt trees in rows 1km in length are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hybrid Poplar &#8211; 6.03 &#8211; 6.54 tonnes of carbon per year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White Spruce &#8211; 2.43 &#8211; 2.75 tonnes of carbon per year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manitoba Maple &#8211; 2.39 &#8211; 2.60 tonnes of carbon per year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scots Pine &#8211; 1.90 &#8211; 2.17 tonnes of carbon per year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green Ash&nbsp; &#8211; 1.78 &#8211; 1.98 tonnes of carbon per year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caragana &#8211; 1.73 &#8211; 2.03 tonnes of carbon per year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reference:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Amichev, B. Y., Bentham, M., Kulshreshtha, S., Laroque, C. P., Piwowar, J. M., &amp; Rees, K. V. (2016). Carbon sequestration and growth of six common tree and shrub shelterbelts in Saskatchewan, Canada. <em>Canadian Journal of Soil Science<\/em>. doi:10.1139\/cjss-2016-0107 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best tree commonly found in Saskatchewan shelterbelts for carbon sequestration is the hybrid poplar. A 1km row of hybrid poplar is estimated to sequester an average of 6.03 &#8211; 6.54 tonnes of carbon per year.&nbsp; The average estimated carbon sequestration rate of six common shelterbelt trees in rows 1km in length are as follows: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-329","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iss.madlabsk.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iss.madlabsk.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iss.madlabsk.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iss.madlabsk.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iss.madlabsk.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iss.madlabsk.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/iss.madlabsk.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/329\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iss.madlabsk.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}