Maria Fantappiè

Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis | CREA · Research Centre for Agrobiology and Pedology (Florence) (CRA-ABP)

At European scale, soil characteristics are needed to evaluate soil quality, soil health and soil‐based ecosystem services in the context of the European Green Deal. While some soil databases exist at the European scale, a much larger wealth of data is present in individual European countries, allowing a more detailed soil assessment. There is thus...

Questo studio nasce a supporto della pianificazione territoriale in campo energetico e si propone i seguenti obiettivi: i) quantificare l’estensione delle aree marginali (AM) potenzialmente coltivabili con colture da biomassa ad uso energetico; ii) stimare le quantità di acqua necessaria alla produzione di dette colture; iii) stimare le quantità di...

Soil can play a primary role to address key global challenges, such as climate change mitigation and adaptation; ensuring food security and human livelihood; preserving ecosystem services, biodiversity and water quality. Nevertheless, identifying and addressing key soil challenges requires a cross cutting and tailored approach that considers local...

Tra i servizi ecosistemici di regolazione forniti dai suoli, la capacità di trattenere e immagazzinare acqua è uno dei più importanti poiché da questo dipendono altri ser-vizi quali ad esempio la mitigazione di inondazioni, la regolazione del (micro)clima, l'approvvigionamento idri-co alle colture, la riserva, lo stoccaggio e la fornitura di nutrie...

The process of delimitation of the Italian agricultural areas affected by natural constraints (ANCs, rif. EU regulation no 1305 2013): methodology and results.

The knowledge of farmers' perception about the value of natural resources in agricultural management should have a central role in the orientation of decision-making processes in the rural policy. The final goal of such knowledge is to involve the population in the management of the territory with a bottom-up approach for a sustainable use of natur...

The 2013 Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) reform established to apply certain criteria to designate Areas with Natural Constraints (ANCs) to be later used in the payment schemes provided by the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programmes (RDPs). ANCs payments support farmers in those areas where natural constraints (i.e. climate, morphology and soil) lim...

[EN] This contribution reports the results of the application of the JRC guidelines to identify Italian agricultural areas, other than mountain areas, facing significant natural constraints (Areas with Natural Constraints – ANCs). Spatial analysis has been carried out to integrate climatic, soil, terrain and agricultural data. The latter were integ...

In vineyards, degraded areas characterized by a reduction in quantity or quality of grape production are frequent, even if managed under organic farming. Degradation is mainly caused by soil truncation, soil erosion, or salts enrichment. Recovering strategies implemented in 19 degraded vineyards in 5 countries concerned: (i) composted organic amend...

Planning new vineyard needs accurate information about soil features and their spatial variability. The use of soil proximal sensors, coupled by few targeted soil observations and analysis, allows to obtain high detailed maps of soil variability at affordable costs. The work shows a methodology to interpolate the proximal sensors data and to deline...

Le fasi di preparazione di un vigneto, come di molte altre colture pluriennali (frutteti, oliveti, arboricoltura) sono spesso molto impattanti sul suolo, in quanto possono realizzare livellamenti eccessivi, scassi ed arature troppo profonde, spinta frantumazione del substrato roccioso, sproporzionata applicazione di fertilizzanti di fondo e di ripo...

SOC is the most important indicator of soil fertility and monitoring its space-time changes is a prerequisite to establish strategies to reduce soil loss and preserve its quality. Here we modelled the topsoil (0–0.3 m) SOC concentration of the cultivated area of Sicily in 1993 and 2008. Sicily is an extremely variable region with a high number of e...

High-precision maps of soil features, namely texture, soil organic carbon, gravels, allow monitoring the effects of specific agricultural managements on carbon stock spatial variability. At a field-scale the assessing of soil spatial variability can be improved by using proximal sensors, which permit a quick and cheap recording of data with a high...

Drylands cover nearly of the half of the world and are inhabited by ca. 40 % of the world’s population. Such lands harbour a variety of soils whose net primary and agricultural production is limited by water scarcity and high temperatures in the area, and other soil-specific traits, including actual and potential soil erosion. In such conditions, p...

Efficient modelling methods to assess soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks have a pivotal importance as inputs for global carbon cycle studies and decision-making processes. However, laboratory analyses of SOC field samples are costly and time consuming. Global-scale estimates of SOC were recently made according to categorical variables, including land...

In Italian vineyards, it is quite common to have areas characterized by problems in vine health, grape production and quality, often caused by improper land preparation before vine plantation and/or management. Causes for soil malfunctioning can include reduced contribution of the soil fauna to the ecosystem services such as nutrient cycles and org...

Core Ideas Proximal sensors have been used for high‐detail mapping of soil C stock at field scale. Laboratory Vis‐NIR spectroscopy allowed an increase in the number of data points. Topsoil spatial variability maps were obtained using field gamma‐ray spectroscopy. Only conventional laboratory analysis was used to calibrate the model (one sample/ha)....

The Soil Map of Italy at 1: 1,000,000 scale, was the result of the work of Edoardo AC Costantini, Giovanni L'Abate, Roberto Barbetti, Maria Fantappié, Romina Lorenzetti, and Simona Magini affiliated to Research Centre for agrobiology and soil science (CREA-ABP), in collaboration with several regional institutions, universities and other research ce...

The assessment of class frequency in soil map legends is affected by uncertainty, especially at small scales where generalization is greater. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that data mining techniques provide better estimation of class frequency than traditional deterministic pedology in a national soil map. In the 1:5,000,000 map...

Soils have a great potential in stocking soil organic carbon SOC, but how much can human activities, and particularly agricultural ones, contribute to increase (or decrease) the SOC content? Which kind of agricultural practices are the most effective? From the soil database of Sicily we have selected 52 profiles, whose first 40 cm from the soil su...

Physiographic maps summarize and group the landforms of a territory into homogeneous areas in terms of kind and intensity of the main geomorphological process. These maps are often produced at semi-detailed scales, while examples at the regional scale are much less common. However, because the region is the main administrative level in Europe, phys...

Physiographic maps summarize and group the landforms of a territory into homogeneous areas in terms of kind and intensity of the main geomorphological process. These maps are often produced at semi-detailed scales, while examples at the regional scale are much less common. However, because the region is the main administrative level in Europe, phys...

Assessing the risk of soil erosion caused by water at the regional level is important for current and future planning of land use and environmental actions to combat land degradation. The gravity of the risk depends not only on the rate of soil erosion by water, but also on other factors, primarily soil depth and workability of the underlying rocks...

Assessing the risk areas of soil erosion by water at the regional level is relevant for current and future land planning of environmental actions to combat land degradation. The gravity of the risk is not only depending on the rate of soil erosion by water, but also on other factors, primarily soil depth and rock weatherability. The map of the soil...

The assessment of class frequency in soil map legends is affected by uncertainty, especially at small scales, where generalization is larger. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that data mining or geostatistic techniques provide better estimation of class frequency than traditional deterministic pedology in a national soil map. In the...

This paper is aimed at showing the organization of the national soil information system managed by the Agriculture Research Council of Italy (Soil Information System of Italy, SISI). The available soil geodatabases for the whole of Italy are those of the soil regions (1:5,000,000), subregions (1:1,000,000), and systems (1:500,000), while the soil s...

Gamma-ray spectroscopy surveys the intensity and distribution of γ-rays emitted from radionuclides of soils and bedrocks. The most important radionuclides of soils and rocks are: 40K, 232Th, 238U and 137Cs, the latter due to Chernobyl explosion or radioactive pollution. Distribution and quantity of these radionuclides in the soil are strictly linke...

The aim of this work is to present a fast and cheap method for high-resolution mapping of calcic horizons in vineyards based on geoelectrical proximal sensing. The study area, 45 ha located in southern Sicily (Italy), was characterized by an old, partially dismantled marine terrace and soils with a calcic horizon at different depths. The geoelectri...

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 information stored in the national soil database. Soil regions on hills are the most lithologically and climatically variable environments, and host the greatest s...

Climate has a potential strong influence on the soil forming processes of Italy. The elongated shape of the Italian peninsula, stretching along 11 parallels in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and the presence of two morphological barriers, the Alps and the Apennines, cause great local climatic variations. Actually, in Italy, authors recognized...

Estimating frequency of soil classes in map unit is always affected by some degree of uncertainty, especially at small scales, with a larger generalization. The aim of this study was to compare different possible approaches - data mining, geostatistic, deterministic pedology - to assess the frequency of WRB Reference Soil Groups (RSG) in the major...

Cited By (since 1996): 7, Export Date: 11 January 2013, Source: Scopus, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.02.006, Language of Original Document: English, Correspondence Address: Fantappié, M.; CRA-ABP, Research Centre for Agrobiology and Pedology, 50121, Firenze, Italy; email: m.fanta@soilmaps.it, References: Alvarez, R., Lavado, R.S., Climate, organic...

Soils contain about three times the amount of carbon globally available in vegetation, and about twice the amount in the atmosphere. However, soil organic carbon (SOC) has been reduced in many areas, while an increase in atmospheric CO2 has been detected. Recent research works have shown that it is likely that past changes in land use history and l...

Key Words: andean agro-ecology; watershed basin management; pachamama cult; agro forestry; participative GIS. Abstract : This work is based on three years experience in Guamote, Chimborazo, Ecuador. The Guamote soils can be classified as Vitric Andisols and Entisols (USDA 2003). Guamote site is in high risk of desertification. The Guamote inhabitan...