The site is located inside the Real Bosco of Capodimonte within the city of Naples, in the Campania region, Italy. The site is an evergreen forest in a Mediterranean ecosystem. The vegetation belongs to the Mediterranean macchia and forests dominated by Quercus ilex L. with a mean height of 22 m, and few but large individual trees of Pinus pinea L.. Within the oak forest some areas of meadows are present, mainly composed by Trifolium Tourn. ex L. and Medicago L.. In addition, many exotic species.
This research is made possible by the PON project I-AMICA(Infrastructure of High Technology for Environmental Cli-mate Monitoring, PONa3 00363) and the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) supported by Joint Research Unit “ICOS Italia”, funded by Ministry of University and Researches, throughout CNR-DSSTTA and PRO–ICOS_MED Potenziamento della rete di osservazione ICOS-Italia nel Mediterraneo – Rafforzamento del Capitale Umano” PIR01_00019 / CIR01_00019. Project activities were also funded under the N
