Biochar and Biochar with N Fertilizer Impact on Soil Physical Properties in a Silty Loam Haplic Luvisol
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Recently, a lot of studies focused on the effects of biochar application to agricultural soils and its influence on the soil properties.However, only limited information is available on the simultaneous impact of N-fertilizer combined with biochar to soil physical propersies such as: soil moisture, soil temperature, bulk density and waterfilled pore space.Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in the soil physical properties of a silty loam Haplic Luvisol affected by the biochar application and its combination with N fertilizer during the years 2014-2016 (Experimental site of SUA-Nitra, Dolná Malanta, Slovakia).The field experiment was carried out in 2014 with different biochar application doses (0, 10 and 20 t ha -1 ) and different rate of N fertilization (0, 1 st and 2 nd level of N fertilization).The results showed that the both biochar amendment and biochar with N fertilizer increased the soil moisture in the range of 1 to 15%, on average.The higher rate of biochar resulted in higher soil moisture in all treatments with biochar in the following order B0 (14.9) < B10 (15.1) < B20 (16.2) as well as in biochar in combination with N fertilization: B0N1 (14.6) < B10N1 (15.7) < B20N1 (16.2) as well as B0N2 (14.8) < B10N2 (15.8) < B20N2 (16.0) during the years of 2014-2016.A positive trend of water-filled pore space increase by the time in all studied treatments was observed.No significant changes in the average soil temperature were observed between the biochar and biochar with N fertilization treatments during the growing seasons of individual years.The higher rate of biochar resulted in lower soil bulk density in all treatments with biochar in combination with N fertilization in the following order: B0N1 (1.49) > B10N1 (1.47) > B20N1 (1.44) as well as B0N2 (1.51) > B10N2 (1.47) > B20N2 (1.39) during years the studied period (2014)(2015)(2016).
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Owing to special characters such as high surface area and porosity, biochar application influences soil physical properties.
“Owing to special characters (such as high surface area and porosity), biochar application influences soil physical properties (Fu et al. 2019;Greenberg et al. 2019;Horák et al. 2019;Oladele 2019;Zhang et al. 2020).”
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- Authors
- Horák, J., Šimanský, V., & Igaz, D.
- Affiliations
- Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (SK)
- ORCID
- Igaz, Dušan
- Venue
- Journal of Ecological Engineering
- Published
- 2019-07-01
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 31-38
- ISSN
- 2081-139X (ISSN-L)
- 2299-8993
- OpenAlex
- W2954553314
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 2.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of Ecological Engineering (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja (APVV-15-0160, 15-0160, APVV-15)
- Kultúrna a Edukacná Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠ SR
- Vedecká Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠ SR a SAV (15-0160, 1/0136/17)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Keywords
- biochar amendment, nitrogen fertilization, soil physical properties, soil moisture, soil temperature, soil bulk density, water-filled pore space, Haplic Luvisol, silt loam soil, biochar application rate, soil amendment, long-term field experiment, soil carbon sequestration, soil nitrogen mineralization, soil nitrogen leaching
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