3.3 Changes in biomass and carbon stock
The spatial pattern of AGB revealed that it declined significantly due to establishment of camps to accommodate Rohingya refugee between 2017 and 2019. Fig. 7 shows that AGB decreased over space and their distribution could decline severely in the future. At temporal scale, mixed forest experienced a severe loss in biomass followed by canopy forest cover (Table 9). Since these categories play an important role in ecosystem functioning, their influence on the loss of AGB is noteworthy than shrubs and plantation forest (young trees) landcovers. It is also observed that 27,600 tons of carbon may have released to the atmosphere between 2017 and 2019 which may increase to about 71,920 tons, if deforestation continues at the current rate.