Biochar-enhanced composts reduce the potential leaching of nutrients and heavy metals and suppress plant-parasitic nematodes in excessively fertilized cucumber soils

Compost and poultry manure as preplant soil amendments for red raspberry: Comparative effects on root lesion nematodes, soil quality and risk of nitrate leaching

(2016) Tom Forge et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Locally produced wood biochar increases nutrient retention and availability in agricultural soils of the San Juan Islands, USA

(2016) S. Gao et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Plant Diseases and Management Approaches in Organic Farming Systems

(2016) A.H.C. van Bruggen et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Nutrients, heavy metals and phthalate acid esters in solar greenhouse soils in Round-Bohai Bay-Region, China: impacts of cultivation year and biogeography

(2016) Zhiqun Chen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Biochar-compost substrates in short-rotation coppice: Effects on soil and trees in a three-year field experiment

(2016) Felix von Glisczynski et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Benefits of biochar, compost and biochar–compost for soil quality, maize yield and greenhouse gas emissions in a tropical agricultural soil

(2016) Getachew Agegnehu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Reducing environmental risk of excessively fertilized soils and improving cucumber growth by Caragana microphylla-straw compost application in long-term continuous cropping systems

(2016) Yongqiang Tian et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Use of compost as an alternative to conventional inorganic fertilizers in intensive lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) crops—Effects on soil and plant

(2016) Teresa Hernández et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Organic Compost to Improve Contaminated Soil Quality and Plant Fertility

(2016) Lisa Ciadamidaro et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Biochar and biochar-compost as soil amendments: Effects on peanut yield, soil properties and greenhouse gas emissions in tropical North Queensland, Australia

(2015) Getachew Agegnehu et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Past, present, and future use of phosphorus in Chinese agriculture and its influence on phosphorus losses

(2015) Haigang Li et al.   AMBIO

Biochar from woody biomass for removing metal contaminants and carbon sequestration

(2015) Tarek M. Abdel-Fattah et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY

Effects of single-root-grafting, double-root-grafting and compost application on microbial properties of rhizosphere soils in Chinese protected cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) production systems

(2015) Yinan Gao et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE

Emerging land use practices rapidly increase soil organic matter

(2015) Megan B. Machmuller et al.   Nature Communications

Biochar and biochar-compost as soil amendments to a vineyard soil: Influences on plant growth, nutrient uptake, plant health and grape quality

(2014) Hans-Peter Schmidt et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Improved soil fertility from compost amendment increases root growth and reinforcement of surface soil on slopes

(2014) Suzanne Donn et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

A mycorrhizal fungus grows on biochar and captures phosphorus from its surfaces

(2014) Edith C. Hammer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Mitigation of phosphorus leaching losses via subsurface drains from a cracking marine clay soil

(2013) Annika Svanbäck et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Does biochar application alter heavy metal dynamics in agricultural soil?

(2013) P. Lucchini et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Effects of conventional and reduced N inputs on nematode communities and plant yield under intensive vegetable production

(2013) Wei-Bin Ruan et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Phosphorus Sorption and Availability from Biochars and Soil/Biochar Mixtures

(2013) Rajesh Chintala et al.   CLEAN-Soil Air Water

Using biochar for remediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals and organic pollutants

(2013) Xiaokai Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Biochar addition rate influences soil microbial abundance and activity in temperate soils

(2013) J. D. Gomez et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Biochar and its effects on plant productivity and nutrient cycling: a meta-analysis

(2013) Lori A. Biederman et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Impact of biochar and hydrochar addition on water retention and water repellency of sandy soil

(2013) Stefan Abel et al.   GEODERMA

Excessive use of nitrogen in Chinese agriculture results in high N2O/(N2O+N2) product ratio of denitrification, primarily due to acidification of the soils

(2013) Zhi Qu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nutrient transfers by leaching in a no-tillage system through soil treated with repeated pig slurry applications

(2013) Eduardo Girotto et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Influence of biochar amendments on the sorption–desorption of aminocyclopyrachlor, bentazone and pyraclostrobin pesticides to an agricultural soil

(2013) A. Cabrera et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Effects of summer cover crop and residue management on cucumber growth in intensive Chinese production systems: soil nutrients, microbial properties and nematodes

(2010) Yongqiang Tian et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Significant Acidification in Major Chinese Croplands

(2010) J. H. Guo et al.   SCIENCE

Reducing environmental risk by improving N management in intensive Chinese agricultural systems

(2009) X.-T. Ju et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization: Theory and models across scales

(2009) Stefano Manzoni et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY