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productivity at regional scale. These models have been applied on a wide range
of Italian forest types within several research projects, as for the national specific
CarboItaly project.
The availability of both high resolution remotely sensed dataset and micro-
meteorological data for model parameterization and validation, contributed to
the development of new methodological approaches for the estimation of carbon
budgets of Italian forests. The converging results provided by the two different
hybrid models previously presented, show the reliability of these models in pre-
dicting national forest productivity at regional scale. A significant contribution to
models reliability is provided by the availability of ground-based data set meas-
ured at the national flux network of Eddy Covariance sites covering main national
ecosystem typologies.
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