Spruce site MdM: General data										

Date	April-2000									
										
Site	Monte di Mezzo									
Tree species	Picea abies K.									
										
Contact person										
Name	Giorgio Matteucci; Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza									
Organisation	University of Tuscia - DISAFRI (Dep. of Forest Environment and Resources)									
Adress	Via San Camillo de Lellis									
City	Viterbo									
Country	Italy									
Phone	39-0761-357292									
Fax	39-0761-357389									
E-mail	macchia@unitus.it      gscaras@unitus.it									
										
										
Site data										
Coordinates	41°45' N   14°53' E   905 m a.s.l.									
Type of stand	Plantation; planted in 1958 with a 1.5x2m grid on a former agricultural land which hosted a collection of cereals									
Site situation	Good fertility (mean height=21); but too dense									
Vegetation	Pure spruce plantation; understory very sparse with some Hedera and some seedlings 									
	of Abies and Quercus and Acer on the plantation									

Bud break date	Variable 105-135									
Leaf fall date	Summer									



References										
Barrett K and Berge E (eds) 1996.Transboundary air pollution in Europe. MSC-W Status Report 1996.										
EMEP/MSC-W: Report 1/96. Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Oslo. Norway.

Bauer G Schulze E-D and Mund M 1997. Nutrient content and concentrations in relation to growth of Picea abies
and Fagus sylvatica along a European transect. Tree Physiology 17: 777-786.

Bauer G 1997. Stickstoffhaushalt und Wachstum von Fichten- und Buchenwaeldern entlang eines europaeischen
Nord-Sued-Transektes. PhD thesis Universitaet Bayreuth. Germany.

Berge E (ed) 1997. Transboundary air pollution in Europe. MSC-W Status Report 1997.
EMEP/MSC-W: Report 1/97. Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Oslo. Norway.

Central Office of Agricultural Ecology Italy 2000. Climate data – site Monte di Mezzo. CD-ROM-Data base. 
In: Schulze E-D (ed.) Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European Forest Ecosystems. Ecological Studies 142. Springer; Berlin Heidelberg New York

Istituto Sperimentale per la Selvicoltura Isernia Italy 2000. Climate data – site Monte di Mezzo. CD-ROM-Data base. 
In: Schulze E-D (ed.) Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European Forest Ecosystems. Ecological Studies 142. Springer; Berlin Heidelberg New York

Harrison AF 2000. Soil carbon and nitrogen pool data. CD-ROM-Data base. 
In: Schulze E-D (ed.) Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European Forest Ecosystems. Ecological Studies 142. Springer; Berlin Heidelberg New York

Harrison AF Harkness DD Rowland AP Garnett JS Bacon PJ 2000. Annual carbon and nitrogen fluxes in soils along the European forest transect
determined using 14C-bomb. In: Schulze E-D (ed) 2000. Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European forest ecosystems. Ecological Studies 142: Chapter 11. Springer; Berlin Heidelberg New York.

Matteucci G Masci A and Scarascia Mugnozza G 2000. Data – sites Collelongo and Monte de Mezzo. CD-ROM-Data base. 
In: Schulze E-D (ed.) Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European Forest Ecosystems. Ecological Studies 142. Springer; Berlin Heidelberg New York

Persson T 2000a. Soil characteristic data. CD-ROM-Data base. 
In: Schulze E-D (ed.) Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European Forest Ecosystems. Ecological Studies 142. Springer; Berlin Heidelberg New York

Persson T 2000b. Soil carbon and nitrogen pools data. CD-ROM-Data base. 
In: Schulze E-D (ed.) Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European Forest Ecosystems. Ecological Studies 142. Springer; Berlin Heidelberg New York

Persson T Van Oene H Harrison AF Karlsson P Bauer G Cerny J Coûteaux M-M Dambrine E Högberg P Kjøller A Matteucci G Rudebeck A
Schulze E-D and Paces T 2000. Experimental sites in the NIPHYS/CANIF project. In: Schulze E-D (ed) 2000. Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European forest ecosystems.
Ecological Studies 142: Chapter 2. Springer; Berlin Heidelberg New York.

Scarascia-Mugnozza G Bauer G Persson H Matteucci G and Masci A 2000. Tree biomass growth and nutrient pools. In: Schulze E-D (ed) 2000. 
Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European forest ecosystems. Ecological Studies 142: Chapter 3. Springer; Berlin Heidelberg New York.


Other references relevant to the site
Guidi G and Manetti MC 1994. Ricerche sull'evoluzione naturale di soprassuoli forestali a Quercus cerris L. e Fagus sylvatica L. nell'Appennino meridionale.
Secondo contributo - Osservazioni su alcuni fattori della produttività e del microclima in due aree protette. Ann. Ist. Sper. Selv. XXIII: 201-223. 

Guidi G Manetti MC and Pelleri F 1994. Ricerche sull’evoluzione naturale di soprassuoli forestali a Quercus cerris L. e Fagus sylvatica L. nell’Appennino meridionale. 
Primo contributo - Osservazioni sui caratteri del soprassuolo e relative modificazioni in due aree protette. Ann. Ist. Sper. Selv. XXII: 117-156. 

Masci A Napoli G Dore S Matteucci G and Scarascia Mugnozza G 1998. Produzione di biomassa epigea radicale in una faggeta e in un rimboschimento di abete rosso
dell'Appennino Abruzzese. In: Borghetti M. (edit). La ricerca italiana in selvicoltura ed ecologia forestale. Proc. I S.I.S.E.F. congress. Padova. Italy 4-6 Giugno 1997. Pp. 225-232. 

Tancredi Hainy M 1998.  Assorbimento ed utilizzazione dell'azoto in alberi di latifoglie e conifere in ecosistemi forestali dell'Italia Centrale.
Laurea degree thesis. University of Tuscia. Viterbo. Italy
