The role of vineyards in the carbon balance throughout Italy

Gianelle, Damiano and Gristina, Luciano and Pitacco, Andrea and Spano, Donatella and La Mantia, Tommaso and Marras, Serena and Meggio, Franco and Novara, Agata and Sirca, Costantino and Sottocornola, Matteo (2014) The role of vineyards in the carbon balance throughout Italy. In: Environmental Science and Engineering :. Environmental Science and Engineering . Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 159-171.

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Abstract

A common belief is that agricultural fields cannot be net carbon sinks, but perennial tree crops, growing a permanent woody structure with a life cycle of decades could act as carbon sink. Vineyards are good candidates to test this hypothesis, because they are often grown with limited soil cultivation and produce plenty of woody pruning material that can be left on the ground. Three Eddy Covariance sites were established in different vineyards, along a north-south transect, in Italy, to study the role of vine cultivation in the carbon balance of the Italian penisula. The year 2009 was chosen as a reference year for the three sites, in order to compare carbon budget estimates in areas characterized by different meteorological, pedological and geomorphological conditions. In the three sites a carbon sink ranging between 814 (Negrisia site) and 89 (Serdiana site) g C m−2 y−1 was measured. Both climate (water availability and PAR) and management (in particular the presence of permanent grass cover) have a strong impact on the carbon balance of the ecosystems. Even if it can be argued that this sink may be only temporary and the built-up can be substantially disrupted at the end of the vineyard life cycle, these results show that there is a concrete possibility of storing carbon in agricultural soils. Proper practices can be defined to preserve this storage at best, greatly contributing to the global carbon budget.

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Additional Information:	Funding Information: The Serdiana site was funded by the Sardinia Region Project SQFVS (Per un Salto di Qualità della Filiera Vitivinicola della Sardegna) Progetto P6 “Centro di ricerca e trasferimento tecnologico nella filiera del vino di qualità”, within the Accordo di Programma Quadro in materia di Ricerca Scientifica e Innovazione Tecnologica e realizzato dalle aziende del Convisar–Consorzio Vino e Sardegna: Argiolas, Serdiana, Cantina Gallura, Tempio, Cantina Li Duni, Badesi, Cantina delle Vigne di Piero Mancini, Olbia, Cantina del Mandrolisai, Sorgono, Cantina Trexenta, Senorbì, and by the Italian Ministry of Environment under grant agreement no. 232/2011. We also would like to thanks Mr. Pierpaolo Zara and Angelo Arca (CNR-IBIMET, Sassari) for the assistance and maintenance of the monitoring stations. Funding Information: Acknowledgments The Serdiana site was funded by the Sardinia Region Project SQFVS (Per un Salto di Qualità della Filiera Vitivinicola della Sardegna) Progetto P6 “Centro di ricerca e trasferimento tecnologico nella filiera del vino di qualità”, within the Accordo di Programma Quadro in materia di Ricerca Scientifica e Innovazione Tecnologica e realizzato dalle aziende del Convisar–Consorzio Vino e Sardegna: Argiolas, Serdiana, Cantina Gallura, Tempio, Cantina Li Duni, Badesi, Cantina delle Vigne di Piero Mancini, Olbia, Cantina del Mandrolisai, Sorgono, Cantina Trexenta, Senorbì, and by the Italian Ministry of Environment under grant agreement no. 232/2011. We also would like to thanks Mr. Pierpaolo Zara and Angelo Arca (CNR-IBIMET, Sassari) for the assistance and maintenance of the monitoring stations. Publisher Copyright: © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015.
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