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    Soil quality in the urban gardens of Barcelona (Spain)

    Urban agriculture is expanding worldwide and is being promoted by the FAO as a strategic activity because of its environmental, socio-economic, and educational benefits for citizens. In Spain, it is estimated ...

    Cosimo Dondini, Xavier Úbeda, Giacomo Certini in Journal of Soils and Sediments (2024)

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    Soil pyrogenic organic matter characterisation by spectroscopic analysis: a study on combustion and pyrolysis residues

    Pyrogenic organic matter (PyOM) in the soil of a maritime pine forest in Central Italy, formed during a fire of high severity, was characterised by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and 13C nuclear magnetic reso...

    Giovanni Mastrolonardo, Ornella Francioso in Journal of Soils and Sediments (2015)

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    Fire as a Soil-Forming Factor

    In the span of a human generation, fire can, in theory, impact all the land covered by vegetation. Its occurrence has many important direct and indirect effects on soil, some of which are long-lasting or even ...

    Giacomo Certini in AMBIO (2014)

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    Soil carbon dynamics in a Mediterranean forest during the Kyoto Protocol commitment periods

    The purpose of the present work is to asses the possibility of detecting changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) at the end of the 5-years of the first Commitment Period (CP) of the Kyoto Protocol of the United N...

    Tommaso Chiti, Giacomo Certini, Lucia Perugini in Regional Environmental Change (2011)