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

Organic carbon paper stored in the soils of the Emilia-Romagnol Apennines, is understood as 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 organic surface horizons in the case of forest soils. It provides a spatial data. The CO content in the first 30 cm of soil and in the organic horizons in forest soils takes into account the distribution of different soil types 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 mesh structure consisting of cells with 1Km side. 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 the soils according to the Land Charter of the Emilia-Romagna Region (scale 1:250,000, ed. 1994 and update); the distinction between land-occupied areas and non-land areas (i.e. urban, infrastructure or surface water) derives from the 2003 Land Use Charter on a scale of 1:25,000 drawn up by the Geographic Information Systems Service of the Emilia-Romagna Region.