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Title: | Assessing the biomass of shrubs typical of Mediterranean pre-forest communities | Authors: | Corona, Piermaria Pasta, Salvatore Giardina, Giovanni La Mantia, Tommaso |
Keywords: | Pistacia lentiscus;Chamaerops humilis;Euphorbia dendroides;Spartium junceum;Shrub inventory | Issue Date: | 2012 | Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | Source: | Corona, P. et al. 2012. Assessing the biomass of shrubs typical of Mediterranean pre-forest communities. "Plant Biosystems" 146 (2): 252-257 | Abstract: | One of the most outstanding issues of current environmental research is the need of reliable assessments of carbon stock (i.e. above-ground (a.g.) and below-ground biomass, deadwood, litter, and organic soil matter) within forest ecosystems. Although shrub vegetation plays an important role in accumulating carbon in many Mediterranean environments, there is still very little knowledge on the carbon they store. In this article, we analyze the a.g. carbon stock of several Mediterranean shrubby communities in Sicily (Italy), dominated by Pistacia lentiscus, Chamaerops humilis, Euphorbia dendroides and Spartium junceum. Plant samples for each species were selected, and morphometric attributes (height, crown diameter, diameter at breast height, etc.) were measured to establish models for estimating a.g. biomass. Dendrometric data were also used to support the assessment of shrub biomass at community level by coupling them with the coverage of the considered woody species estimated from several hundreds of phytosociological releve´s carried out on pre-forest Sicilian communities. Although the results of such an approach have to be considered as rough assessments, the trial proves interesting, given the lack of information on stand biomass of pre-forest vegetation within the Mediterraean region. |
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URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2337 | ISSN: | 1126-3504 | DOI: | dx.doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2011.593200 |
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