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The objective of this research was to assess the amount of carbon stock of coarse woody debris (CWD) in Bombo-Lumene Reserve. Data on lying CWD was collected on 35 circular sampling plots using Line Intersect Sampling (LIS) method. A total of 230 samples CWD (≥10 cm diameter) were inventoried. The mean carbon stocks of CWD was 29.48 Mg C ha -1 , ranging from 4.32 to 73.54 Mg C ha -1 . The CWD carbon stocks displayed a wide range of variation in decay states. The allocation of CWD among the decay class of all the CWD samples reveals that the most important classes were class 1 and class 3 with 323.66 and 321.96 Mg C ha -1 , followed by class 4 with 264.56 and the last one was class 2 with 121.72 Mg C ha -1 . The results suggested that the dead wood component is important in carbon sequestration and should be taken into consideration for quantification of carbon stocks not only in Bombo- Lumene Reserve, but in all forest ecosystems in the Democratic Republic of Congo.