Carbon storage was classified into four parts: above- and below-ground vegetation, soil carbon and
dead plants. The carbon density of each component was determined for the different ecosystems after
referring to relevant published research [15-21].
Data
The data used in this paper consisted of 1:100 000 scale maps of land use, land cover and topography,
2 km × 2 km soil property information, distribution of the damage occurring in the earthquake-affected
area, and maps showing average annual rainfall isohyets. Post-earthquake land-use maps and land-cover
maps were prepared from overlays of corresponding pre-earthquake maps (2005).