Towards a global assessment of pyrogenic carbon from vegetation fires

The Pyrogenic Carbon Cycle

(2015) Michael I. Bird et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

In-stream sources and links between particulate and dissolved black carbon following a wildfire

(2015) Sasha Wagner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Influence of feedstock properties and pyrolysis conditions on biochar carbon stability as determined by hydrogen pyrolysis

(2015) Anna V. McBeath et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Labile pyrogenic dissolved organic carbon in major Siberian Arctic rivers: Implications for wildfire-stream metabolic linkages

(2015) Allison N. Myers-Pigg et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

(2015) Cristina Santín et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Assessment of distribution and sources of pyrogenic carbon in the lower course of the Guadiana River (SW Iberian Peninsula)

(2015) José M. De la Rosa et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Source Material and Concentration of Wildfire-Produced Pyrogenic Carbon Influence Post-Fire Soil Nutrient Dynamics

(2015) Lucas Michelotti et al.   Forests

New approaches to measuring biochar density and porosity

(2014) Catherine E. Brewer et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Holocene colluvial chronology in a sub-arctic esker landscape at Kuttanen, Finnish Lapland: kettleholes as geo-ecological archives of interactions amongst fire, vegetation, soil, climate and geomorphological instability

(2014) John A. Matthews et al.   BOREAS

Wildland fire ash: Production, composition and eco-hydro-geomorphic effects

(2014) Merche B. Bodí et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Effect of physical weathering on the carbon sequestration potential of biochars and hydrochars in soil

(2014) Christophe Naisse et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

A meta-analysis on pyrogenic organic matter induced priming effect

(2014) Bernardo Maestrini et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Charcoal re-combustion efficiency in tropical savannas

(2014) Gustavo Saiz et al.   GEODERMA

Charcoal dispersion and deposition in boreal lakes from 3 years of monitoring: Differences between local and regional fires

(2014) France Oris et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Aged black carbon in marine sediments and sinking particles

(2014) Alysha I. Coppola et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Biochar application to soil for climate change mitigation by soil organic carbon sequestration

(2014) Klaus Lorenz et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Effect of biochar addition on C mineralisation and soil organic matter priming in two subsoil horizons

(2014) Christophe Naisse et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Learning to coexist with wildfire

(2014) Max A. Moritz et al.   NATURE

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

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

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

Mineral-associated organic carbon and black carbon in restored wetlands

(2014) Qing Wang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Pyrogenic carbon additions to soil counteract positive priming of soil carbon mineralization by plants

(2014) Thea Whitman et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Alteration of Biochar Carbon Chemistry during Soil Incubations: SR-FTIR and NEXAFS Investigation

(2014) Fungai N. D. Mukome et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Global soil carbon: understanding and managing the largest terrestrial carbon pool

(2014) Jörn PW Scharlemann et al.   Carbon Management

Charcoal Morphometry for Paleoecological Analysis: The Effects of Fuel Type and Transportation on Morphological Parameters

(2014) Alastair J. Crawford et al.   Applications in Plant Sciences

Physical Disintegration of Biochar: An Overlooked Process

(2014) K. A. Spokas et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Current research issues related to post-wildfire runoff and erosion processes

(2013) John A. Moody et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Carbon dioxide emissions from biochar in soil: role of clay, microorganisms and carbonates

(2013) S. Bruun et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Global wildland fire season severity in the 21st century

(2013) Mike Flannigan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: Emission factors

(2013) Shawn Urbanski   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: Modeling fuel consumption

(2013) Roger D. Ottmar   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The way forward in biochar research: targeting trade-offs between the potential wins

(2013) Simon Jeffery et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

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

(2013) Nimisha Singh et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Consumption of residual pyrogenic carbon by wildfire

(2013) C. Santín et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

(2013) Pierre Regnier et al.   Nature Geoscience

Characterization and biodegradation of water-soluble biomarkers and organic carbon extracted from low temperature chars

(2013) Matt J. Norwood et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Iron traps terrestrially derived dissolved organic matter at redox interfaces

(2013) T. Riedel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

(2013) T. C. Bond et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth-generation global fire emissions database (GFED4)

(2013) Louis Giglio et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

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

(2012) Dominic Woolf et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Hydrologic properties of biochars produced at different temperatures

(2012) T.J. Kinney et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Dissolved black carbon in grassland streams: Is there an effect of recent fire history?

(2012) Yan Ding et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Transport of Biochar Particles in Saturated Granular Media: Effects of Pyrolysis Temperature and Particle Size

(2012) Dengjun Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Carbon loads, forms and sequestration potential within ash deposits produced by wildfire: new insights from the 2009 ‘Black Saturday’ fires, Australia

(2012) Cristina Santín et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Boreal forest soil carbon: distribution, function and modelling

(2012) T. H. Deluca et al.   FORESTRY

Co-generated fast pyrolysis biochar mitigates green-house gas emissions and increases carbon sequestration in temperate soils

(2012) Catherine E. Stewart et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

State of the scientific knowledge on properties and genesis of Anthropogenic Dark Earths in Central Amazonia (terra preta de Índio)

(2012) Bruno Glaser et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Mineralogical controls on soil black carbon preservation

(2012) Daniela F. Cusack et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

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

Describing wildland surface fuel loading for fire management: a review of approaches, methods and systems

(2012) Robert E. Keane   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Micro-charcoal abundances in stream sediments from Buckeye Creek Cave, West Virginia, USA

(2012) Gregory Springer et al.   JOURNAL OF CAVE AND KARST STUDIES

Global burned area and biomass burning emissions from small fires

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

Modelling the Impacts of Wildfire on Ash Thickness in a Short-Term Period

(2012) P. Pereira et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Discharge of dissolved black carbon from a fire-affected intertidal system

(2012) Thorsten Dittmar et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Continuous flux of dissolved black carbon from a vanished tropical forest biome

(2012) Thorsten Dittmar et al.   Nature Geoscience

Differentiation of charcoal, soot and diagenetic carbon in soil: Method comparison and perspectives

(2012) Philipp J. Roth et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Biochar effect on the mineralization of soil organic matter

(2012) Sander Bruun et al.   PESQUISA AGROPECUARIA BRASILEIRA

Biological degradation of pyrogenic organic matter in temperate forest soils

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

Biodegradability of organic matter in fire-affected mineral soils of Southern Spain

(2012) Heike Knicker et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Assessment of black carbon radiative effects in climate models

(2012) Johann Feichter et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Stormwater and Fire as Sources of Black Carbon Nanoparticles to Lake Tahoe

(2011) Marion M. Bisiaux et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Effects and fate of biochar from rice residues in rice-based systems

(2011) S.M. Haefele et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Variability in oxidative degradation of charcoal: Influence of production conditions and environmental exposure

(2011) P.L. Ascough et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Impacts of wildfire on runoff and sediment loads at Little Granite Creek, western Wyoming

(2011) Sandra E. Ryan et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

The sequestration sink of soot black carbon in the Northern European Shelf sediments

(2011) Laura Sánchez-García et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Permineralization process promotes preservation of Holocene macrofossil charcoal in soils

(2011) Guillaume De Lafontaine et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

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

Modeling black carbon degradation and movement in soil

(2011) Bente Foereid et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Pyrogenic organic matter in soil: Its origin and occurrence, its chemistry and survival in soil environments

(2011) Heike Knicker   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Buried dark soil horizons and archaeological features in the Neolithic settlement region of the Lower Rhine area, NW Germany: Formation, geochemistry and chronostratigraphy

(2011) R. Gerlach et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Soil charcoal stability over the Holocene across boreal northeastern North America

(2011) Guillaume de Lafontaine et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Bioavailability of N released from N-rich pyrogenic organic matter: An incubation study

(2011) José M. de la Rosa et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Short-term biochar-induced increase in soil CO2 release is both biotically and abiotically mediated

(2011) D.L. Jones et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2011) Samuel Abiven et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

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

The priming potential of biochar products in relation to labile carbon contents and soil organic matter status

(2011) Andrew Cross et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Temperature Sensitivity of Black Carbon Decomposition and Oxidation

(2010) Binh Thanh Nguyen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Abiotic and Microbial Oxidation of Laboratory-Produced Black Carbon (Biochar)

(2010) Andrew R. Zimmerman   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Aged black carbon identified in marine dissolved organic carbon

(2010) L. A. Ziolkowski et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Combining charcoal and elemental black carbon analysis in sedimentary archives: Implications for past fire regimes, the pyrogenic carbon cycle, and the human–climate interactions

(2010) Florian Thevenon et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

(2010) Richard H. Moss et al.   NATURE

“Black nitrogen” – an important fraction in determining the recalcitrance of charcoal

(2010) Heike Knicker   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Nature and reactivity of charcoal produced and added to soil during wildfire are particle-size dependent

(2010) Caterina Nocentini et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Isotopes in pyrogenic carbon: A review

(2010) Michael I. Bird et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Charcoal recognition, taphonomy and uses in palaeoenvironmental analysis

(2010) Andrew C. Scott   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Deep soil organic matter—a key but poorly understood component of terrestrial C cycle

(2010) Cornelia Rumpel et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Degradability of black carbon and its impact on trace gas fluxes and carbon turnover in paddy soils

(2010) Christian Knoblauch et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change

(2010) Dominic Woolf et al.   Nature Communications

Quantifying Char in Postfire Woody Detritus Inventories

(2010) Daniel C. Donato et al.   Fire Ecology

Breaking ground: Pedological, geological, and ecological implications of soil bioturbation

(2009) Marshall T. Wilkinson et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The global distribution of net primary production: resolving the paradox

(2009) Michael A. Huston et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Biomass burning in Brazil's Amazonian “arc of deforestation”: Burning efficiency and charcoal formation in a fire after mechanized clearing at Feliz Natal, Mato Grosso

(2009) Ciro Abbud Righi et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Erosion budget and process selectivity of black carbon at meter scale

(2009) C. Rumpel et al.   GEODERMA

Fluxes of soot black carbon to South Atlantic sediments

(2009) Rainer Lohmann et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

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

(2009) JULIE MAJOR et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Preservation potential of charcoal in alkaline environments: an experimental approach and implications for the archaeological record

(2009) F. Braadbaart et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

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

Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

(2009) Corinne Le Quéré et al.   Nature Geoscience

Black carbon decomposition under varying water regimes

(2009) Binh Thanh Nguyen 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

Comparison of the reflectances of black plant fragments in melanic Andisols with those of fresh charcoal from modern fires

(2009) Jun Inoue et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

The effect of ash and needle cover on surface runoff and erosion in the immediate post-fire period

(2008) Artemi Cerdà et al.   CATENA

Pan-Arctic patterns in black carbon sources and fluvial discharges deduced from radiocarbon and PAH source apportionment markers in estuarine surface sediments

(2008) Marie Elmquist et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

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

How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils?

(2008) Bernd Marschner et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Australian climate–carbon cycle feedback reduced by soil black carbon

(2008) Johannes Lehmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial mineralization and assimilation of black carbon: Dependency on degree of thermal alteration

(2008) Sander Bruun 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

Variability in morphology, hygroscopicity, and optical properties of soot aerosols during atmospheric processing

(2008) R. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus

(2008) D. A. Wardle 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 carbon storage in forest soils of the Rocky Mountain West

(2007) Thomas H DeLuca et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT