The properties and functions of biochars in forest ecosystems

The impact of charcoal and soil mixtures on decomposition and soil microbial communities in boreal forest

(2016) Nathalie Pluchon et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Soil microbial responses over 2 years following biochar addition to a north temperate forest

(2015) Genevieve L. Noyce et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Comparison of straw-biochar-mediated changes in nitrification and ammonia oxidizers in agricultural oxisols and cambosols

(2015) Lili He et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Letter to the Editor on ‘Pyrogenic organic matter production from wildfires: a missing sink in the global carbon cycle’

(2015) Sharon A. Billings et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pyrogenic organic matter production from wildfires: a missing sink in the global carbon cycle

(2015) Cristina Santín et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil charcoal as long-term pyrogenic carbon storage in Amazonian seasonal forests

(2015) Maryory M. Turcios et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Towards a global assessment of pyrogenic carbon from vegetation fires

(2015) Cristina Santín et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Total and pyrogenic carbon stocks in black spruce forest floors from eastern Canada

(2015) Laure N. Soucémarianadin et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Organic carbon dynamics in soils with pyrogenic organic matter that received plant residue additions over seven years

(2015) R. Saman Dharmakeerthi et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Shifts in microbial community and water-extractable organic matter composition with biochar amendment in a temperate forest soil

(2015) Perry J. Mitchell et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant-biochar interactions drive the negative priming of soil organic carbon in an annual ryegrass field system

(2015) Zhe (Han) Weng et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Wood biochar increases nitrogen retention in field settings mainly through abiotic processes

(2015) Shahla Hosseini Bai et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A dual-isotope approach to allow conclusive partitioning between three sources

(2015) Thea Whitman et al.   Nature Communications

Nano-structural and chemical characterization of charred organic matter in a fire-affected Arenosol

(2014) Svetlana Filimonova et al.   GEODERMA

Biochar Decelerates Soil Organic Nitrogen Cycling but Stimulates Soil Nitrification in a Temperate Arable Field Trial

(2014) Judith Prommer et al.   PLoS One

Biochar stability in soil: Decomposition during eight years and transformation as assessed by compound-specific 14C analysis

(2014) Yakov Kuzyakov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Rhizosphere priming effects on soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization

(2014) Biao Zhu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Addition of activated switchgrass biochar to an aridic subsoil increases microbial nitrogen cycling gene abundances

(2013) Thomas F. Ducey et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Short-term impact of a wildfire on net and gross N transformation rates

(2013) María Xesús Gómez-Rey et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Biochar addition affected the dynamics of ammonia oxidizers and nitrification in microcosms of a coastal alkaline soil

(2013) Yanjing Song et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Short-Term Effect of the Soil Amendments Activated Carbon, Biochar, and Ferric Oxyhydroxide on Bacteria and Invertebrates

(2013) Sarah E. Hale et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mineral composition and charcoal determine the bacterial community structure in artificial soils

(2013) Guo-Chun Ding et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Transformation and stabilization of pyrogenic organic matter in a temperate forest field experiment

(2013) Nimisha Singh et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Linking N2O emissions from biochar-amended soil to the structure and function of the N-cycling microbial community

(2013) Johannes Harter et al.   ISME Journal

Going back to the roots: the microbial ecology of the rhizosphere

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Size and spatial structure of the soil and lacustrine charcoal pool across a boreal forest watershed

(2013) Mikael Ohlson et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Global Charcoal Mobilization from Soils via Dissolution and Riverine Transport to the Oceans

(2013) R. Jaffe et al.   SCIENCE

An experimental study of charcoal degradation in a boreal forest

(2013) Isabella Kasin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Ryegrass-derived pyrogenic organic matter changes organic carbon and nitrogen mineralization in a temperate forest soil

(2013) Bernardo Maestrini et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Rapid degradation of pyrogenic carbon

(2012) Michael Zimmermann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance

(2012) Jennifer A. J. Dungait et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global burned area and biomass burning emissions from small fires

(2012) J. T. Randerson et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A demonstration of the high variability of chars produced from wood in bushfires

(2012) Anna V. McBeath et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Towards reconstruction of past fire regimes from geochemical analysis of charcoal

(2012) Mareike Wolf et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Biological degradation of pyrogenic organic matter in temperate forest soils

(2012) Fernanda Santos et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial biomass growth, following incorporation of biochars produced at 350 °C or 700 °C, in a silty-clay loam soil of high and low pH

(2012) Y. Luo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Variation in Aboveground Cover Influences Soil Nitrogen Availability at Fine Spatial Scales Following Severe Fire in Subalpine Conifer Forests

(2011) Monica G. Turner et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Effects of fire-derived charcoal on soil properties and seedling regeneration in a recently burned Larix gmelinii/Pinus sylvestris forest

(2011) Kobayashi Makoto et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Pyrogenic carbon soluble fraction is larger and more aromatic in aged charcoal than in fresh charcoal

(2011) Samuel Abiven 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

Biochar effects on soil biota – A review

(2011) Johannes Lehmann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Influences of non-herbaceous biochar on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal abundances in roots and soils: Results from growth-chamber and field experiments

(2010) Daniel D. Warnock et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

An investigation into the reactions of biochar in soil

(2010) S. D. Joseph et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL RESEARCH

Topographic controls on black carbon accumulation in Alaskan black spruce forest soils: implications for organic matter dynamics

(2010) E. S. Kane et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Wildfire Effects on Soil Gross Nitrogen Transformation Rates in Coniferous Forests of Central Idaho, USA

(2010) Akihiro Koyama et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Effects of a Prescribed Fire on Understory Vegetation, Carbon Pools, and Soil Nutrients in a Longleaf Pine-Slash Pine Forest in Florida

(2010) M. Lavoie et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

(2010) Richard H. Moss et al.   NATURE

Thermal alteration of organic matter during a shrubland fire: A field study

(2010) M.A. Alexis et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Potential mechanisms for achieving agricultural benefits from biochar application to temperate soils: a review

(2010) Christopher J. Atkinson et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Charcoal mineralisation potential of microbial inocula from burned and unburned forest soil with and without substrate addition

(2010) Caterina Nocentini et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The effect of young biochar on soil respiration

(2010) Jeffrey L. Smith et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Taxa-specific changes in soil microbial community composition induced by pyrogenic carbon amendments

(2010) Christina L.M. Khodadad et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change

(2010) Dominic Woolf et al.   Nature Communications

Vulnerability of carbon storage in North American boreal forests to wildfires during the 21st century

(2009) M. S. BALSHI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fate of soil-applied black carbon: downward migration, leaching and soil respiration

(2009) JULIE MAJOR et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon-based stock feed additives: a research methodology that explores ecologically delivered C biosequestration, alongside live weights, feed use efficiency, soil nutrient retention, and perennial fodder plantations

(2009) Mark P McHenry   JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

The charcoal carbon pool in boreal forest soils

(2009) Mikael Ohlson et al.   Nature Geoscience

A heat-induced molecular signature in marine dissolved organic matter

(2009) Thorsten Dittmar et al.   Nature Geoscience

Black carbon affects the cycling of non-black carbon in soil

(2009) Biqing Liang et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Fire in the Earth System

(2009) D. M. J. S. Bowman et al.   SCIENCE

Effect of biochar amendment on soil carbon balance and soil microbial activity

(2009) S. Steinbeiss et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Storage and mobility of black carbon in permafrost soils of the forest tundra ecotone in Northern Siberia

(2008) GEORG GUGGENBERGER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Morphological, chemical and physical changes during charcoalification of wood and its relevance to archaeological contexts

(2008) F. Braadbaart et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A new conceptual model for the structural properties of char produced during vegetation fires

(2008) Heike Knicker et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Mineralisation and structural changes during the initial phase of microbial degradation of pyrogenic plant residues in soil

(2008) André Hilscher et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Response to Comment on "Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus"

(2008) D. A. Wardle et al.   SCIENCE

Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus

(2008) D. A. Wardle et al.   SCIENCE

Comment on "Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus"

(2008) J. Lehmann et al.   SCIENCE

Black carbon decomposition and incorporation into soil microbial biomass estimated by 14C labeling

(2008) Yakov Kuzyakov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2007) Christoph Steiner et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA