SOIL BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY IN A PINUS LARICIO FOREST IN SILA

This work is a synthesis of studies performed in a Corsican pine forest in Sila Mountains (Calabria, South Italy) throughout six years and concerns soil respiration, soil microbial and fungal biomass, asymbiotic nitrogen fixation, N O and CH emissions, denitrifying activity, litter decomposition and nutrient 2 4 release. Microbial respiration of upper soil layer and decomposing pine needles showed patterns