Materials and methods
The study area and data sources
Utiel-Requena is a region of the province of Valencia (Spain), divided into nine municipal areas. On the northern side it is bounded by the provinces of Cuenca and Albacete in the Community of Castilla – La Mancha and on the north-east, east and south-east by other regions of the Community of Valencia. It has a river, the Magro, which rises in Utiel and flows along a relatively flat plateau with an average height of 750m. The region covers an area of 1831 km2 and has a population of 40,735. Agricultural activities occupy an area of 669km2, with the main crops being grapes for wine-making, olives and fruit. Forest areas make up a total of 615km2, with a predominance of pinus halepensis. Using the proposed method, total recoverable biomass was calculated to be 110,547 t.