Biochar: a potential route for recycling of phosphorus in agricultural residues
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Phosphorus (P) is a finite and dwindling resource, while an enormous amount of P flows to agricultural residues with increasing agricultural production. Therefore, the recycling of P in agricultural residues is critical for P sustainability in agricultural systems, which is dominated by the route of direct land application. Biochar production from agricultural residues and its subsequent land application have been suggested as solutions for waste biomass disposal, carbon sequestration, soil amendment/remediation, and crop production promotion. However, little attention has been paid to the contrasting effects of the land application of biochar vs. agricultural residues on the recycling of P accumulated in agricultural residues. Phosphorus in agricultural residues can be retained and transformed into stable forms of P in the resulting biochar. Thus, compared to agricultural residues, biochar provides lower amounts of labile P and releases its P more slowly while providing a long‐lasting P source, and the loss potential of P from biochar is reduced by low mobility of its P, indicating that biochar‐based P recycling route could substantially promote P recycling by acting as sustainable P source and diminishing the loss of P applied to soil.
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Biochar can be a reserve stock for P in soils.
“Biochar can be a reserve stock for P in soils (Dai et al. 2016;Zhang et al. 2016).”
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- Authors
- Dai, L., Li, H., Tan, F., Zhu, N., He, M., & Hu, G.
- Affiliations
- Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture (CN)
- Chongqing University (CN)
- Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture Chengdu 610041 China
- Corresponding author
- Dai, Lichun
- Venue
- GCB Bioenergy
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-04-30
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 852-858
- ISSN
- 1757-1693 (ISSN-L)
- 1757-1707
- OpenAlex
- W2342386281
- Cited by
- 85
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 7
- FWCI
- 10.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- GCB Bioenergy (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS‐ASTIP‐2015‐BIOMA‐2)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Phosphorus and nutrient management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Keywords
- biochar, phosphorus recycling, agricultural residues, land application, phosphorus retention, labile phosphorus, phosphorus mobility, phosphorus loss, carbon sequestration, soil amendment
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