Soil burial contributes to deep soil organic carbon storage

NT Chaopricha, E Marín-Spiotta - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Understanding the source of soil organic carbon (SOC) in deep soil horizons and the
processes influencing its turnover is critical for predicting the response of this large reservoir …

Vineyard management and its impacts on soil biodiversity, functions, and ecosystem services

B Giffard, S Winter, S Guidoni, A Nicolai… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Healthy soils form the basis of sustainable viticulture, where soil characteristics have a direct
impact on wine quantity and quality. Soil not only provides water and nutrients to vines, but …

Soil health, soil genetic horizons and biodiversity#

EAC Costantini, S Mocali - Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Maintaining or recovering soil health is becoming a goal of many policies carried out at
national, continental and global scales to promote global health. This viewpoint is aimed at …

Variability in the potential effects of climate change on phenology and on grape composition of Tempranillo in three zones of the Rioja DOCa (Spain)

MC Ramos, FM de Toda - European Journal of Agronomy, 2020 - Elsevier
The objective of this research was to analyse the potential effect of climate change on
phenology and berry composition of the variety Tempranillo cultivated in areas of the Rioja …

An overview of the recent approaches to terroir functional modelling, footprinting and zoning

E Vaudour, E Costantini, GV Jones, S Mocali - Soil, 2015 - soil.copernicus.org
Notions of terroir and their conceptualization through agro-environmental sciences have
become popular in many parts of world. Originally developed for wine, terroir now …

Effects of soil erosion on agro-ecosystem services and soil functions: A multidisciplinary study in nineteen organically farmed European and Turkish vineyards

EAC Costantini, M Castaldini, MP Diago… - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
This multidisciplinary research work evaluated the effects of soil erosion on grape yield and
quality and on different soil functions, namely water and nutrient supply, carbon …

Scale effect of terroir under three contrasting vintages in the Chianti Classico area (Tuscany, Italy)

S Priori, S Pellegrini, R Perria, S Puccioni, P Storchi… - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
In viticulture, terroir is a concept used to explain the specific combination and interaction of
natural and human factors that provides distinctive characteristics to the wine. The role of …

Soil chemistry and meteorological conditions influence the elemental profiles of West European wines

S Blotevogel, E Schreck, C Laplanche, P Besson… - Food chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Elemental profiles of wines have been used successfully to distinguish their geographical
provenience around the world; however, underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. In …

Pedodiversity

EAC Costantini, R Barbetti, M Fantappie, G L'Abate… - The soils of Italy, 2013 - Springer
Pedodiversity of Italy, that is, the diversity of soil genetic types, their geographic distribution,
and the statistical variability of their properties, is depicted by means of maps and …

[HTML][HTML] Sentinel-2 imagery monitoring vine growth related to topography in a protected designation of origin region

D Tassopoulos, D Kalivas, R Giovos, N Lougkos… - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing satellite platforms provide accurate temporal and spatial information useful
in viticulture with an increasing interest in their use. This study aims to identify the …