Application papers — Organic carbon stored in the soils of the Apennines between 0-100 cm

The paper of organic carbon stored in the soils of the Emilia-Romagna Apennines, is understood as the first processing through polygons that describe the average content of organic carbon expressed in Mg*ha-1 in the first 100 cm of soil plus the content of the organic surface horizons in the case of forest soils. It provides a spatial data. The CO content in the first 100 cm of soil and organic horizons in forest soils considers the distribution of different types of soil and the incidence of non-soil areas, 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 1Km side. The value attributed takes into account the zero contribution due to non-soil areas. The attribution 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 land-occupied and non-soil-occupied areas (i.e. urban, infrastructure or surface water) derives from the Land Use Charter 2003 on a scale of 1:25,000 drawn up by the Geographic Information Systems Service of the Emilia-Romagna Region.