Abstract:Abstract:From the perspectives of forest type,stand age and stand origin, biomass expansion factor was used to evaluate the carbon storage and carbon density of forest vegetation in Taizi Mountain Forest Management Bureau of Hubei Province,based on the data of forest resource inventory in 2009.The results showed that the carbon storage of forest vegetation was 233 855.66 t,and the average carbon density was 39.31 t·hm-2.Carbon storage of artificial forest was 4.02 times higher than that of natural forest, and forest vegetation carbon storage was provided mainly by artificial forest. According to the type of forest,the carbon storage and carbon density of coniferous forest was the highest, followed by broad leaved forest and coniferous and broad leaved mixed forest.According to the stand age,the carbon storage of young forest was the highest, followed by mature forest, middle aged forest,pre mature forest and over mature forest. The changing trend of forest carbon density was first increasing and then decreasing with the increasing of stand age. The forest area and carbon storage of middle aged and young forest accounted for a larger proportion, and the potential of forest vegetation carbon storage of this area was great.