Publication date: 1 April 2018
Source:Geoderma, Volume 315
Author(s): Giovanni Mastrolonardo, Ornella Francioso, Giacomo Certini
Charcoal production in forests is one of the oldest forms of forest exploitation. The legacy of such once widespread activity is a plethora of relic charcoal hearths (RCHs 1 RCHs: relic charcoal hearths. ), where soil shows a thick, black, charcoal-rich top horizon. Even where very common, such as in European forests, RCHs were rarely studied to assess their relevance as C reservoir. For this purpose, as a case study, we investigated some RCHs at Marsiliana, a typical Mediterranean oak forest from Central Italy. We found that RCHs soils, in spite of representing <i.e. 1.1% to 4.2% of total ecosystem C, including litter, the top 30
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Source:Geoderma, Volume 315
Author(s): Giovanni Mastrolonardo, Ornella Francioso, Giacomo Certini
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