An assessment of emergy, energy, and cost-benefits of grain production over 6 years following a biochar amendment in a rice paddy from China

Is current biochar research addressing global soil constraints for sustainable agriculture?

(2016) Dengxiao Zhang et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Effect of biochar additions to soil on nitrogen leaching, microbial biomass and bacterial community structure

(2016) Nan Xu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Quantification of biochar effects on soil hydrological properties using meta-analysis of literature data

(2016) Morris Oduor Omondi et al.   GEODERMA

Biochar has no effect on soil respiration across Chinese agricultural soils

(2016) Xiaoyu Liu 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

Carbon footprint of grain crop production in China – based on farm survey data

(2015) Ming Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Biochars and the plant-soil interface

(2015) Johannes Lehmann et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Sustainable biochar effects for low carbon crop production: A 5-crop season field experiment on a low fertility soil from Central China

(2014) Xiaoyu Liu et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

From rhetoric to reality: farmer perspectives on the economic potential of biochar in China

(2014) Abbie Clare et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

A three-year experiment confirms continuous immobilization of cadmium and lead in contaminated paddy field with biochar amendment

(2014) Rongjun Bian et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Effect of biochar amendment on soil-silicon availability and rice uptake

(2014) Xiaoyu Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Biochar by design

(2014) S. Abiven et al.   Nature Geoscience

How may biochar influence severity of diseases caused by soilborne pathogens?

(2014) E.R. Graber 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

Biochar soil amendment as a solution to prevent Cd-tainted rice from China: Results from a cross-site field experiment

(2013) Rongjun Bian et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Quantifying the effect of biochar amendment on soil quality and crop productivity in Chinese rice paddies

(2013) Min Huang et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

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

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

Chinese agriculture: An experiment for the world

(2013) Fusuo Zhang et al.   NATURE

Biochar’s effect on crop productivity and the dependence on experimental conditions—a meta-analysis of literature data

(2013) Xiaoyu Liu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

(2013) Maria Luz Cayuela et al.   Scientific Reports

Assessing the health of agricultural land with emergy analysis and fuzzy logic in the major grain-producing region

(2012) Qiang Li et al.   CATENA

Can biochar amendment be an ecological engineering technology to depress N2O emission in rice paddies?—A cross site field experiment from South China

(2012) Xiao-yu Liu et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Emergy synthesis of a combined food and energy production system compared to a conventional wheat (Triticum aestivum) production system

(2012) Bhim Bahadur Ghaley et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

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

Emergy-based analysis of four farming systems: insight into agricultural diversification in rural China

(2011) L.X. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Integrated Soil–Crop System Management: Reducing Environmental Risk while Increasing Crop Productivity and Improving Nutrient Use Efficiency in China

(2011) Fusuo Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Biochar reduces the bioavailability and phytotoxicity of heavy metals

(2011) Jin Hee Park et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Effect of biochar amendment on yield and methane and nitrous oxide emissions from a rice paddy from Tai Lake plain, China

(2010) Afeng Zhang et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Integrated emergy, energy and economic evaluation of rice and vegetable production systems in alluvial paddy fields: Implications for agricultural policy in China

(2010) Hongfang Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change

(2010) Dominic Woolf et al.   Nature Communications

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