The DOI matches its Crossref record; 190 of the 190 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Biochar and Its Broad Impacts in Soil Quality and Fertility, Nutrient Leaching and Crop Productivity: A Review
Open accessAbstract
Biochar is gaining significant attention due to its potential for carbon (C) sequestration, improvement of soil health, fertility enhancement, and crop productivity and quality. In this review, we discuss the most common available techniques for biochar production, the main physiochemical properties of biochar, and its effects on soil health, including physical, chemical, and biological parameters of soil quality and fertility, nutrient leaching, salt stress, and crop productivity and quality. In addition, the impacts of biochar addition on salt-affected and heavy metal contaminated soils were also reviewed. An ample body of literature supports the idea that soil amended with biochar has a high potential to increase crop productivity due to the concomitant improvement in soil structure, high nutrient use efficiency (NUE), aeration, porosity, and water-holding capacity (WHC), among other soil amendments. However, the increases in crop productivity in biochar-amended soils are most frequently reported in the coarse-textured and sandy soils compared with the fine-textured and fertile soils. Biochar has a significant effect on soil microbial community composition and abundance. The negative impacts that salt-affected and heavy metal polluted soils have on plant growth and yield and on components of soil quality such as soil aggregation and stability can be ameliorated by the application of biochar. Moreover, most of the positive impacts of biochar application have been observed when biochar was applied with other organic and inorganic amendments and fertilizers. Biochar addition to the soil can decrease the nitrogen (N) leaching and volatilization as well as increase NUE. However, some potential negative effects of biochar on microbial biomass and activity have been reported. There is also evidence that biochar addition can sorb and retain pesticides for long periods of time, which may result in a high weed infestation and control cost.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Biochar physicochemical properties: pyrolysis temperature and feedstock kind effects
Tomczyk, A., Sokołowska, Z., & Boguta, P. (2020) · Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology · doi:10.1007/s11157-020-09523-3 · Cited by 2,948 · cited 2×
“Biochar produced from animal litter, poultry manure, and solid waste materials shows a high CEC but lower C content, surface area, and volatile matter compared to biochars derived from wood biomass, agricultural and crop residues [17].”
BackgroundDrought Stress Impacts on Plants and Different Approaches to Alleviate Its Adverse Effects
Seleiman, M. F., Al-Suhaibani, N., Ali, N., Akmal, M., Alotaibi, M., Refay, Y., Dindaroglu, T., Abdul-Wajid, H. H., & Battaglia, M. L. (2021) · Plants · doi:10.3390/plants10020259 · Cited by 1,976
Self-citationWeber, K., & Quicker, P. (2018) · Fuel · doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2017.12.054 · Cited by 1,522
A review of biochar as a low-cost adsorbent for aqueous heavy metal removal
Inyang, M. I., Gao, B., Yao, Y., Xue, Y., Zimmerman, A., Mosa, A., Pullammanappallil, P., Ok, Y. S., & Cao, X. (2016) · Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology · doi:10.1080/10643389.2015.1096880 · Cited by 1,397
Gul, S., Whalen, J. K., Thomas, B. W., Sachdeva, V., & Deng, H. (2015) · Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment · doi:10.1016/j.agee.2015.03.015 · Cited by 1,303
Xu, N., Tan, G., Wang, H., & Gai, X. (2016) · European Journal of Soil Biology · doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2016.02.004 · Cited by 1,180 · cited 1×
“[118] reported that biochar reduced the NO3−, NH4+, and total N leaching between 19 and 28%, 16 and 19% and 19 and 20%, respectively, when compared to the un-amended soil with biochar (control).”
ResultBiochar and Soil Physical Properties
Blanco-Canqui, H. (2017) · Soil Science Society of America Journal · doi:10.2136/sssaj2017.01.0017 · Cited by 1,106
Zhu, X., Chen, B., Zhu, L., & Xing, B. (2017) · Environmental Pollution · doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2017.04.032 · Cited by 1,021
Ippolito, J. A., Cui, L., Kammann, C., Wrage-Mönnig, N., Estavillo, J. M., Fuertes-Mendizabal, T., Cayuela, M. L., Sigua, G., Novak, J., Spokas, K., et al. (2020) · Biochar · doi:10.1007/s42773-020-00067-x · Cited by 927
Agegnehu, G., Bass, A. M., Nelson, P. N., & Bird, M. I. (2016) · Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.054 · Cited by 909 · cited 4×
“)derived biochar with compost along with synthetic fertilizer significantly enhanced the maize growth in Ferralsol soil [112].”
BackgroundInfluential
Research works printed but not linked: 5
- Ippolito, J.A., Spokas, K.A., Novak, J.M., Lentz, R.D., and Cantrell, K.B. (2015). Biochar elemental composition and factors influencing nutrient retention. Biochar for Environmental Management: Science, Technology and Implementation, Springer.
- Yang, 2020, Dynamic effects of direct returning of straw and corresponding biochar on acidity, nutrients, and exchangeable properties of red soil, Huan Jing Xue Huanjing Kexue, 41, 4246
- Badr, 2015, Management strategy for improving the productivity of wheat in newly reclaimed sandy soil, Inter. J. Chem. Technol. Res., 8, 1438
- 2020, Assessment of future hydrologic alteration due to climate change in the Aracthos River Basin (NW Greece), Sci. Total Environ., 733, 139299, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139299 · DOI
- Agegnehu Jenberu, G. (2017). Biochar, Compost and Biochar-Compost: Effects on Crop Performance, Soil Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Tropical Agricultural Soils, James Cook University. · DOI · Paper page
Cited by
Biochar for a sustainable future: Environmentally friendly production and diverse applications
Afshar, M., & Mofatteh, S. (2024) · Results in Engineering · doi:10.1016/j.rineng.2024.102433 · Cited by 233
RETRACTED: Biochar modulating soil biological health: A review
Bolan, S., Sharma, S., Mukherjee, S., Kumar, M., Rao, C. S., Nataraj, K. C., Singh, G., Vinu, A., Bhowmik, A., Sharma, H., et al. (2024) · Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169585 · Cited by 209
RetractedAmalina, F., Syukor Abd Razak, A., Krishnan, S., Sulaiman, H., Zularisam, A. W., & Nasrullah, M. (2022) · Cleaner Materials · doi:10.1016/j.clema.2022.100137 · Cited by 166
Waheed, A., Xu, H., Qiao, X., Aili, A., Yiremaikebayi, Y., Haitao, D., & Muhammad, M. (2025) · Biomass and Bioenergy · doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2024.107531 · Cited by 108
Influence of biochar on soil biology in the charosphere
Weralupitiya, C., Gunarathne, V., Keerthanan, S., Rinklebe, J., Biswas, J. K., Jayasanka, J., & Vithanage, M. (2022) · Biochar in Agriculture for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals · doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-85343-9.00024-0 · Cited by 10
Metadata
- Authors
- Alkharabsheh, H. M., Seleiman, M. F., Battaglia, M. L., Shami, A., Jalal, R. S., Alhammad, B. A., Almutairi, K. F., & Al-Saif, A. M.
- Venue
- Agronomy
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021-05-17
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 993
- ISSN
- 2073-4395 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3160198337
- Cited by
- 538
- References
- 190
- FWCI
- 35.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- Funders
- Deanship of Scientific Research at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (42-FTTJ-18)
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Biochar and Its Broad Impacts in Soil Quality and Fertility, Nutrient Leaching and Crop Productivity: A Review. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.3390/agronomy11050993
- The paper
- Alkharabsheh, H. M., Seleiman, M. F., Battaglia, M. L., Shami, A., Jalal, R. S., Alhammad, B. A., Almutairi, K. F., & Al-Saif, A. M. (2021). Biochar and Its Broad Impacts in Soil Quality and Fertility, Nutrient Leaching and Crop Productivity: A Review. Agronomy. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11050993
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
