Biochar application on paddy and purple soils in southern China: soil carbon and biotic activity

Extractable pool of biochar controls on crop productivity rather than greenhouse gas emission from a rice paddy under rice-wheat rotation

(2018) Punhoon Khan Korai et al.   Scientific Reports

Diversity and Contributions to Nitrogen Cycling and Carbon Fixation of Soil Salinity Shaped Microbial Communities in Tarim Basin

(2018) Min Ren et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Nanoscale analyses of the surface structure and composition of biochars extracted from field trials or after co-composting using advanced analytical electron microscopy

(2017) B.S. Archanjo et al.   GEODERMA

Organic coating on biochar explains its nutrient retention and stimulation of soil fertility

(2017) Nikolas Hagemann et al.   Nature Communications

Biochar built soil carbon over a decade by stabilizing rhizodeposits

(2017) Zhe (Han) Weng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Biochar decreased microbial metabolic quotient and shifted community composition four years after a single incorporation in a slightly acid rice paddy from southwest China

(2016) Jufeng Zheng et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Consistent increase in abundance and diversity but variable change in community composition of bacteria in topsoil of rice paddy under short term biochar treatment across three sites from South China

(2015) Junhui Chen et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria to improve crop growth in saline soils: a review

(2014) Diby Paul et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Contrasting effects of bamboo leaf and its biochar on soil CO2 efflux and labile organic carbon in an intensively managed Chinese chestnut plantation

(2014) Zhanlei Wang et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Long-term stabilization of deep soil carbon by fire and burial during early Holocene climate change

(2014) Erika Marin-Spiotta et al.   Nature Geoscience

Variability in soil microbial community and activity between coastal and riparian wetlands in the Yangtze River estuary – Potential impacts on carbon sequestration

(2014) Yu Hu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of crop-straw biochar on crop growth and soil fertility over a wheat-millet rotation in soils of China

(2014) X. Zhao et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of amendment of different biochars on soil carbon mineralisation and sequestration

(2014) Lei Ouyang et al.   Soil Research

Effects of Rice Straw and Its Biochar Addition on Soil Labile Carbon and Soil Organic Carbon

(2014) Yun-feng YIN et al.   Journal of Integrative Agriculture

Biochar compound fertilizer as an option to reach high productivity but low carbon intensity in rice agriculture of China

(2014) Li Qian et al.   Carbon Management

Change in net global warming potential of a rice–wheat cropping system with biochar soil amendment in a rice paddy from China

(2013) Afeng Zhang et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Biochar soil amendment increased bacterial but decreased fungal gene abundance with shifts in community structure in a slightly acid rice paddy from Southwest China

(2013) Junhui Chen et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Impact of biochar on mineralisation of C and N from soil and willow litter and its relationship with microbial community biomass and structure

(2013) Cahyo Prayogo et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

(2013) Morgan G I Langille et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microbial utilisation of biochar-derived carbon

(2013) Mark Farrell et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Biochar and denitrification in soils: when, how much and why does biochar reduce N2O emissions?

(2013) Maria Luz Cayuela et al.   Scientific Reports

Shifting paradigms: development of high-efficiency biochar fertilizers based on nano-structures and soluble components

(2013) S Joseph et al.   Carbon Management

Modelling the long-term response to positive and negative priming of soil organic carbon by black carbon

(2012) Dominic Woolf et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Chemical characterization of rice straw-derived biochar for soil amendment

(2012) Weixiang Wu et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Variability of soil organic carbon reservation capability between coastal salt marsh and riverside freshwater wetland in Chongming Dongtan and its microbial mechanism

(2012) Yu Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing

(2012) Nicholas A Bokulich et al.   NATURE METHODS

Microbial mineralization of biochar and wheat straw mixture in soil: A short-term study

(2011) Costanza Zavalloni et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies

(2011) T. Magoc et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Response of soil microbial respiration of tidal wetlands in the Yangtze River Estuary to different artificial disturbances

(2011) Yushu Tang et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Effects of biochar amendment on soil quality, crop yield and greenhouse gas emission in a Chinese rice paddy: A field study of 2 consecutive rice growing cycles

(2011) Afeng Zhang et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Reducing CH4 and CO2 emissions from waterlogged paddy soil with biochar

(2011) Yuxue Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Effect of biochar amendment on maize yield and greenhouse gas emissions from a soil organic carbon poor calcareous loamy soil from Central China Plain

(2011) Afeng Zhang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Positive and negative carbon mineralization priming effects among a variety of biochar-amended soils

(2011) Andrew R. Zimmerman et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Short term soil priming effects and the mineralisation of biochar following its incorporation to soils of different pH

(2011) Y. Luo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Characterization of Biochars Produced from Cornstovers for Soil Amendment

(2010) James W. Lee et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Impact of biochar amendments on the quality of a typical Midwestern agricultural soil

(2010) David A. Laird et al.   GEODERMA

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Priming effects: Interactions between living and dead organic matter

(2010) Yakov Kuzyakov   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Characterization of biochar from fast pyrolysis and gasification systems

(2009) Catherine E. Brewer et al.   Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy

Short-term CO2 mineralization after additions of biochar and switchgrass to a Typic Kandiudult

(2009) J.M. Novak et al.   GEODERMA

Bacterial Community Composition in Brazilian Anthrosols and Adjacent Soils Characterized Using Culturing and Molecular Identification

(2009) B. O’Neill et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Using poultry litter biochars as soil amendments

(2008) K. Y. Chan et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL RESEARCH

Mechanisms of real and apparent priming effects and their dependence on soil microbial biomass and community structure: critical review

(2008) Е. Blagodatskaya et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Natural oxidation of black carbon in soils: Changes in molecular form and surface charge along a climosequence

(2008) Chih-Hsin Cheng et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Charcoal and smoke extract stimulate the soil microbial community in a highly weathered xanthic Ferralsol

(2007) Christoph Steiner et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA