Carbon Sequestration in Horticultural Crops
Programme
9:00 - Registration
9:30 - Welcome address
9:45 - Plenary Lecture: Following the carbon: from molecules to mountains - Phil Ineson, University of York, UK
10:30 - Carbon fluxes in pomefruit and stonefruit orchards - Damiano Zanotelli and Massimo Tagliavini, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy
11:15 - Carbon sequestration and partitioning in vineyards - Andrea Pitacco, Nadia Vendrame, Luca Tezza, Università di Padova, Italy
11:40 - Carbon sequestration in olive orchards - Luca Testi, CSIC-Cordoba, Spain
12:05 - Life Cycle Assessment, a balance between inputs and outputs. Focus on greenhouse vegetable production - Assumpció Antón, IRTA, Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, Spain
14:00 - Impacts of global change on Mediterranean-type forest ecosystems and their carbon sequestration potential - Roberto Tognetti, Università del Molise, Italy
14:25 - Closing the picture: the Carbon footprint of the apple from the field to the market - Damiano Zanotelli and Massimo Tagliavini, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy
14:40 - Using sap flow measurements to estimate assimilation rates of fruit trees - Álvaro López-Bernal, Omar García-Tejera, Luca Testi, Francisco Villalobos - Universidad de Cordoba, Departamento de Agronomia, Cordoba, Spain
14:55 - CO2 fluxes in two vineyards of Northern Italy: effect of soil management - Nadia Vendrame, Luca Tezza, Università di Padova, Italy
15:10 - Conservation tillage and nitrogen fertilization affect soil aggregate distribution, carbon storage and enzymatic activities - Gaia Piazza, Elisa Pellegrino, Laura Ercoli - Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
15:25 - Discussion and Conclusions