Application Cards – Organic carbon stored in the Apennines soils between 0-30 cm

The paper of organic carbon stored in the soils of the Emilia-Romagna Apennines, and understood as the first processing through polygons describing the average organic carbon content expressed in Mg*ha-1 in the first 30 cm of soil plus the content of the organic surface horizons in the case of forest soils. It provides a territorial data. The CO content in the first 30 cm of soil and in the organic horizons in forest soils considers the distribution of the different types of soil and the incidence of non-soil surfaces, understood as areas occupied by surface water, urban and infrastructure. The representation of the territory takes place through a knitted structure consisting of cells with a side of 1 km. The value attributed takes into account the zero contribution due to non-soil areas. The allocation of the value to the cell takes into account the distribution of soils according to the Land Charter of the Emilia-Romagna Region (scale 1:250.000, ed. 1994 and updated); the distinction between areas occupied by land and those occupied by non-soil (i.e. urban, infrastructure or surface water) derives from the Land Use Charter 2003 at 1:25.000 scale drawn up by the Geographic Information Systems Service of the Emilia-Romagna Region.