Biochar: Carbon Sequestration, Land Remediation, and Impacts on Soil Microbiology

Temperature- and duration-dependent rice straw-derived biochar: Characteristics and its effects on soil properties of an Ultisol in southern China

(2011) X. Peng et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

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

Terra Preta Australis: Reassessing the carbon storage capacity of temperate soils

(2010) Adriana E. Downie et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Diversity of Anaerobic Microbes in Spacecraft Assembly Clean Rooms

(2010) A. Probst et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluating the Performance of Oligonucleotide Microarrays for Bacterial Strains with Increasing Genetic Divergence from the Reference Strain

(2010) S. Oh et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Accessing the Soil Metagenome for Studies of Microbial Diversity

(2010) Tom O. Delmont et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Isolation and Physiology of Bacteria from Contaminated Subsurface Sediments

(2010) A. Bollmann et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Designer compost with biomass ashes for ameliorating acid tropical soils: Effects on the soil microbiota

(2010) B.P. Bougnom et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Material derived from hydrothermal carbonization: Effects on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhiza

(2010) Matthias C. Rillig et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

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

Chemical and structural properties of carbonaceous products obtained by pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonisation of corn stover

(2010) A. B. Fuertes et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL RESEARCH

An investigation into the reactions of biochar in soil

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

Stability and stabilisation of biochar and green manure in soil with different organic carbon contents

(2010) Joseph M. Kimetu et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL RESEARCH

Estimating profitability of two biochar production scenarios: slow pyrolysis vs fast pyrolysis

(2010) Tristan R. Brown et al.   Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining-Biofpr

Sorption and ecotoxicity of pentachlorophenol polluted sediment amended with rice-straw derived biochar

(2010) Liping Lou et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Agronomic properties of wastewater sludge biochar and bioavailability of metals in production of cherry tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)

(2010) Mustafa K. Hossain et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Screening of Bacterial Isolates from Polluted Soils Exhibiting Catalase and Peroxidase Activity and Diversity of their Responses to Oxidative Stress

(2010) Mária Bučková et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Integration of molecular functions at the ecosystemic level: breakthroughs and future goals of environmental genomics and post-genomics

(2010) Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Sustainability: the capacity of smokeless biomass pyrolysis for energy production, global carbon capture and sequestration

(2010) James Weifu Lee et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Biochar as a Fuel: 3. Mechanistic Understanding on Biochar Thermal Annealing at Mild Temperatures and Its Effect on Biochar Reactivity

(2010) Kongvui Yip et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a metabolite fingerprinting tool for monitoring the phenotypic changes in complex bacterial communities capable of degrading phenol

(2010) Emma S. Wharfe et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Spatial scaling of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity is affected by farming practice

(2010) Christopher J. van der Gast et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Effects of biochar and greenwaste compost amendments on mobility, bioavailability and toxicity of inorganic and organic contaminants in a multi-element polluted soil

(2010) Luke Beesley et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Ecotoxicogenomics: Bridging the Gap between Genes and Populations

(2010) Anastasia Fedorenkova et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

(2010) Andrew R. Zimmerman   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Soil biodiversity and carbon cycling: a review and synthesis of studies examining diversity-function relationships

(2010) U. N. Nielsen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Responses of microbial community functional structures to pilot-scale uranium in situ bioremediation

(2010) Meiying Xu et al.   ISME Journal

PANGEA: pipeline for analysis of next generation amplicons

(2010) Adriana Giongo et al.   ISME Journal

Influence of pyrolysis temperature on production and nutrient properties of wastewater sludge biochar

(2010) Mustafa K. Hossain et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Interaction mechanisms of organic contaminants with burned straw ash charcoal

(2010) Wenhai Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Enhanced and irreversible sorption of pesticide pyrimethanil by soil amended with biochars

(2010) Xiangyang Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Enhanced sorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by soil amended with biochar

(2010) Baoliang Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Amazonian Anthrosols Support Similar Microbial Communities that Differ Distinctly from Those Extant in Adjacent, Unmodified Soils of the Same Mineralogy

(2010) Julie M. Grossman et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Tracing Changes in the Microbial Community of a Hydrocarbon-Polluted Soil by Culture-Dependent Proteomics

(2010) F. BASTIDA et al.   PEDOSPHERE

Biochar impact on development and productivity of pepper and tomato grown in fertigated soilless media

(2010) Ellen R. Graber et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

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

A systematic assessment of automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (ARISA) as a tool for estimating bacterial richness

(2010) Amir Kovacs et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Structural and functional diversity of soil bacterial and fungal communities following woody plant encroachment in the southern Great Plains

(2010) Emily B. Hollister et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Impact of black carbon addition to soil on the determination of soil microbial biomass by fumigation extraction

(2010) M. Durenkamp et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The effect of young biochar on soil respiration

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

A cross-seasonal comparison of active and total bacterial community composition in Arctic tundra soil using bromodeoxyuridine labeling

(2010) Shawna K. McMahon 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

Carbon and nitrogen degradation on molecular scale of grass-derived pyrogenic organic material during 28 months of incubation in soil

(2010) André Hilscher et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Reconciling apparent variability in effects of biochar amendment on soil enzyme activities by assay optimization

(2010) Vanessa L. Bailey et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Influence of Pecan Biochar on Physical Properties of a Norfolk Loamy Sand

(2010) Warren J. Busscher et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Coupling of Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism with Precise Fragment Sizing for Microbial Community Profiling and Characterization

(2009) C. Penny et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Development of a Common Oligonucleotide Reference Standard for Microarray Data Normalization and Comparison across Different Microbial Communities

(2009) Y. Liang et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Quantitative Community Fingerprinting Methods for Estimating the Abundance of Operational Taxonomic Units in Natural Microbial Communities

(2009) A. Ramette   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Chemical characterization of soil extract as growth media for the ecophysiological study of bacteria

(2009) Manuel Liebeke et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Use of biochar as bulking agent for the composting of poultry manure: Effect on organic matter degradation and humification

(2009) Bruno O. Dias et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Impacts of woodchip biochar additions on greenhouse gas production and sorption/degradation of two herbicides in a Minnesota soil

(2009) K.A. Spokas et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Reduced plant uptake of pesticides with biochar additions to soil

(2009) Xiang-Yang Yu et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Sorption of naphthalene and 1-naphthol by biochars of orange peels with different pyrolytic temperatures

(2009) Baoliang Chen et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Significance of treated agrowaste residue and autochthonous inoculates (Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and Bacillus cereus) on bacterial community structure and phytoextraction to remediate soils contaminated with heavy metals

(2009) Rosario Azcón et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils: Phytoremediation as a Potentially Promising Clean-Up Technology

(2009) Ana P. G. C. Marques et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Vibrational spectroscopy-A powerful tool for the rapid identification of microbial cells at the single-cell level

(2009) M. Harz et al.   CYTOMETRY PART A

Analysis of Bio-Oil, Biogas, and Biochar from Pressurized Pyrolysis of Wheat Straw Using a Tubular Reactor

(2009) Nader Mahinpey et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Biochar as a Fuel: 1. Properties and Grindability of Biochars Produced from the Pyrolysis of Mallee Wood under Slow-Heating Conditions

(2009) Hanisom Abdullah et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

The Effects of Reaction Temperature and Time and Particle Size of Corn Stover on Microwave Pyrolysis

(2009) Hanwu Lei et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Arsenic mobility in brownfield soils amended with green waste compost or biochar and planted with Miscanthus

(2009) William Hartley et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Characterization of biochar from fast pyrolysis and gasification systems

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

Dairy-Manure Derived Biochar Effectively Sorbs Lead and Atrazine

(2009) Xinde Cao et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Life Cycle Assessment of Biochar Systems: Estimating the Energetic, Economic, and Climate Change Potential

(2009) Kelli G. Roberts et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Challenges and opportunities in soil organic matter research

(2009) R. Lal   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Reliability for detecting composition and changes of microbial communities by T-RFLP genetic profiling

(2009) Martin Hartmann et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Organo-mineral interactions mask the true sorption potential of biochars in soils

(2009) Neera Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART B-PESTICIDES FOOD CONTAMINANTS AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES

Rhizosphere remediation of chlorpyrifos in mycorrhizospheric soil using ryegrass

(2009) Deepali L. Korade et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Sorption and genotoxicity of sediment-associated pentachlorophenol and pyrene influenced by crop residue ash

(2009) Xinyi Cui et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Arbuscular mycorrhizal association is beneficial for growth and detoxification of xenobiotics of barley under drought stress

(2009) Mohammadali Khalvati et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Sorption of the herbicide terbuthylazine in two New Zealand forest soils amended with biosolids and biochars

(2009) Hailong Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

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

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

Black carbon decomposition under varying water regimes

(2009) Binh Thanh Nguyen et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Arsenic uptake and toxicity in plants: integrating mycorrhizal influences

(2009) Sally E. Smith et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Effects of biochar from slow pyrolysis of papermill waste on agronomic performance and soil fertility

(2009) L. Van Zwieten et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Reducing abrupt climate change risk using the Montreal Protocol and other regulatory actions to complement cuts in CO2 emissions

(2009) M. Molina et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental proteomics: Analysis of structure and function of microbial communities

(2009) Thomas Schneider et al.   PROTEOMICS

Characterization of biochar and bio-oil samples obtained from carbonization of various biomass materials

(2009) Didem Özçimen et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

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

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

Impact of Biochar Amendment on Fertility of a Southeastern Coastal Plain Soil

(2009) Jeffrey M. Novak et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Biocrude oils from the fast pyrolysis of poultry litter and hardwood

(2009) F.A. Agblevor et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Feasibility of Transferring Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization Probes to an 18S rRNA Gene Phylochip and Mapping of Signal Intensities

(2008) K. Metfies et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Temporal Transcriptomic Microarray Analysis of "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes" Strain 195 during the Transition into Stationary Phase

(2008) D. R. Johnson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Using poultry litter biochars as soil amendments

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

Long-term black carbon dynamics in cultivated soil

(2008) Binh Thanh Nguyen et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation on plants growing on arsenic contaminated soil

(2008) P. Jankong et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Reversibility of Soil Productivity Decline with Organic Matter of Differing Quality Along a Degradation Gradient

(2008) Joseph M. Kimetu et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Carbon-negative biofuels

(2008) John A. Mathews   ENERGY POLICY

Phytoaccumulation prospects of cadmium and zinc by mycorrhizal plant species growing in industrially polluted soils

(2008) Audil Rashid et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH

Transcriptional activity of paddy soil bacterial communities

(2008) Pravin Malla Shrestha et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Performance of bioaugmentation-assisted phytoextraction applied to metal contaminated soils: A review

(2008) Thierry Lebeau et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Bioconcentration of zinc and cadmium in ectomycorrhizal fungi and associated aspen trees as affected by level of pollution

(2008) Doris Krpata et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Transitional Adsorption and Partition of Nonpolar and Polar Aromatic Contaminants by Biochars of Pine Needles with Different Pyrolytic Temperatures

(2008) Baoliang Chen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Reduction of nitrogen loss and Cu and Zn mobility during sludge composting with bamboo charcoal amendment

(2008) Li Hua et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Biochar amendment techniques for upland rice production in Northern Laos

(2008) Hidetoshi Asai et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

A study on the carbonization of grapeseed and chestnut shell

(2008) Didem Özçimen et al.   FUEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY

Investigation of the carbonization behavior of hybrid poplar

(2008) Mustafa Hakan Özyurtkan et al.   FUEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY

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

Pyrolysis of agricultural residues from rape and sunflowers: Production and characterization of bio-fuels and biochar soil management

(2008) M.E. Sánchez et al.   JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED PYROLYSIS

Thermal characterisation of microalgae under slow pyrolysis conditions

(2008) Scott Grierson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED PYROLYSIS

X-ray microtomographic imaging of charcoal

(2008) Michael I. Bird et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Reclamation and revegetation of fly ash disposal sites – Challenges and research needs

(2008) R.J. Haynes   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Impact of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on uranium accumulation by plants

(2008) H. Dupré de Boulois et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY

Natural attenuation in a slag heap contaminated with cadmium: The role of plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

(2008) M.C. González-Chávez et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Isolation and analysis of mRNA from environmental microbial communities

(2008) Ken C. McGrath et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Soil-carbon preservation through habitat constraints and biological limitations on decomposer activity

(2008) Klemens Ekschmitt et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Extraction of DNA from soil using nanoparticles by magnetic bioseparation

(2008) A. Sebastianelli et al.   LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

The development and impact of 454 sequencing

(2008) Jonathan M Rothberg et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

Enhanced dissipation of phenanthrene in spiked soil by arbuscular mycorrhizal alfalfa combined with a non-ionic surfactant amendment

(2008) Naiying Wu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Environmentally sustainable production of food, feed and fuel from natural resources in the tropics

(2008) T. Reg Preston   TROPICAL ANIMAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTION

Effectiveness of three bulking agents for food waste composting

(2008) Bijaya K. Adhikari et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

DDT uptake by arbuscular mycorrhizal alfalfa and depletion in soil as influenced by soil application of a non-ionic surfactant

(2007) Naiying Wu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Role and influence of mycorrhizal fungi on radiocesium accumulation by plants

(2007) H. Dupré de Boulois et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY

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

(2007) Christoph Steiner et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

The fate and toxicity of the flavonoids naringenin and formononetin in soil

(2007) Liz J. Shaw et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Drying and rewetting effects on soil microbial community composition and nutrient leaching

(2007) Helen Gordon et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY