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The effect of young biochar on soil respiration
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The low temperature pyrolysis of organic material produces biochar, a charcoal like substance. Biochar is being promoted as a soil amendment to enhance soil quality, it is also seen as a mechanism of long-term sequestration of carbon. Our experiments tested the hypothesis that biochar is inert in soil. However, we measured an increase in CO2 production from soils after biochar amendment which increased with increasing rates of biochar. The ∂13C signature of the CO2 evolved in the first several days of the incubation was the same as the ∂13C signature of the biochar, confirming that biochar contributed to the CO2 flux. This effect diminished by day 6 of the incubation suggesting that most of the biochar C is slowly decomposing. Thus, aside from this short-term mineralization increasing soil C with young biochar may indeed be a long-term C storage mechanism.
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“Fresh low temperature biochars can contain significant amounts of labile C that can be readily utilised by soil microorganisms [74]”
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“Fresh low temperature biochars can contain significant amounts of labile C that can be readily utilised by soil microorganisms [74] which, when delivered to the soil may, in the short term, result in the microbially available soil N becoming immobilised.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Smith, J. L., Collins, H. P., & Bailey, V. L.
- Affiliations
- Washington State University (US)
- Agricultural Research Service (US)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US)
- Corresponding author
- Smith, Jeffrey L.
- Venue
- Soil Biology and Biochemistry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-12
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 2345-2347
- ISSN
- 0038-0717 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1993950009
- Cited by
- 547
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 52 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 52 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 32 · 2016: 47 · 2015: 43 · 2014: 43 · 2013: 30 · 2012: 33
- FWCI
- 46.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Soil Biology and Biochemistry (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Directorate for Biological Sciences
- Biological and Environmental Research
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Fuel Technology › Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Keywords
- biochar, soil respiration, CO2 flux, carbon sequestration, biochar amendment, carbon mineralization, low-temperature pyrolysis, soil carbon storage, incubation
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