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Destruction of forest ecosystems by over straining their carrying capacity in order to meet the increasing demand for natural resources brought up some environmental problems like loss of biodiversity, pollution and global warming. Emissions of CO2 by industrialization and land use changes is seen as the main reason of global warming. Forest ecosystems serve as carbon pools and makes important contributions for decreasing global warming effects. This is why the research on the temporal changes of carbon amount stored in forest ecosystems is prevalent in recent decades. In the present study, it was determined how the amount of carbon stored in biomass of above and belowground biomass of Daday Forest Planning Unit was changed in 1970, 1990, 1999 and 2012 by using ArcGIS 10.2TM software and carbon storage maps were generated. It is observed that amount of carbon was increased nearly 871 …