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In the last decades, the European Union has favored the conversion of marginal croplands to forest plantations also to mitigate climate change by increasing carbon storage in the biosphere. In Italy, recent estimates report that forest plantations cover a total area of 122,252 ha. The aim of the present paper was to quantify carbon stock and annual carbon flux in mixed broadleaf and poplar plantation in Friuli Venezia Giulia plain. Overall, 2,592 ha of mixed broadleaf plantation (1992–2006) and 3,113 ha of poplar plantations (2002–2006) have been established in the Region with a standing carbon stock of 223,400 and 397,753 Mg C, respectively. Soil is the largest carbon pool in both plantation types (60 and 63 % of total ecosystem carbon stock). The total annual carbon sequestration is respectively 8,855 and 40,286 Mg C y−1 whereas soil accounts for 13 % in broadleaf plantations and 9 % in poplar plantations.
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The authors would like to thank Diego Chiabà and Gabriele Pingitore for the help in the data collection and lab analysis.
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Alberti, G., Vedove, G.D., Stefanelli, S., Vanone, G. (2015). Afforestation and Reforestation: The Friuli Venezia Giulia Case Study. In: Valentini, R., Miglietta, F. (eds) The Greenhouse Gas Balance of Italy. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32424-6_13
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