The main objective of this study was to estimate the above-ground biomass in the Miombo forest of the Haut Katanga ecological system in the Democratic Republic of Congo; the case of the “Notre Dame” monastery’s forest of Kiswishi. So, the allometric method was used that consist in the proportionality relation between the relative growth and the mensurations. The evaluated parameters were the terrier area, the above ground biomass according to the Brown’s model (1997) and the estimation of the carbon dioxide emissions for the treeless superficies. On the two selected plots with the medium density of 562 trees per hectare, it was estimated, according to the diameter at the chest height, the above ground biomass of 168.8 metric ton per hectare; the terrier area of 18.86 m2/ha and 618.95 metric ton per hectare of carbon dioxide that would be sent out in the atmosphere if all trees of the ground were cut down and burnt. In conclusion, the Miombo forest of Kiswishi accuse low biomass seeing that it is mainly represented by trees with à diameter at the chest height less than 30 cm.
In this research, the evaluation of the influence of earth worm on the soil fauna diversity was studied during each season in making comparison of the density, the abundance and the biomass between Annelida and other inventoried taxa of invertebrates. The results brought out a great density of earth worm in rainy season than the dry one seeing that Oligochaetes are bound at the humidity. The other taxa inventoried were a part of 8 different orders listed according to the importance as follows: Hymenoptera, Araneida, Isoptera, Diplopoda, Coleoptera, Blattoptera, Chilopoda and Thysanoptera. From the 8 orders, the 7 first inventoried during the rainy season were found again during the dry season but with a great density for almost each taxon in spite of the sensitive reduction of the abundance of earth worms. The Chilopoda’s order was observed only during the rainy season, the one of Thysanoptera only during the dry season. In conclusion, the density, the abundance and the biomass of the earth worms of the Miombo forest don’t have influence on the one of other litter fauna invertebrates.
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