The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system

AI Coppola, S Wagner, ST Lennartz, M Seidel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Black carbon (BC) is produced by incomplete combustion of biomass by wildfires and
burning of fossil fuels. BC is environmentally persistent over centuries to millennia …

How does management affect soil C sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes in boreal and temperate forests?–A review

R Mäkipää, R Abramoff, B Adamczyk, V Baldy… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The global forest carbon (C) stock is estimated at 662 Gt of which 45% is in soil organic
matter. Thus, comprehensive understanding of the effects of forest management practices on …

Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral‐associated forms to address global change in the 21st century

JM Lavallee, JL Soong, MF Cotrufo - Global change biology, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Managing soil organic matter (SOM) stocks to address global change challenges requires
well‐substantiated knowledge of SOM behavior that can be clearly communicated between …

[HTML][HTML] Significance of biochar application to the environment and economy

BA Oni, O Oziegbe, OO Olawole - Annals of Agricultural Sciences, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Biochar is a carbon-rich solid formed from the organic residue by pyrolysis. The productivity
of biochar relies on feedstock type and pyrolysis conditions. Studies on biochar were …

Biochar stability assessment methods: a review

L Leng, H Huang, H Li, J Li, W Zhou - Science of the total environment, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Biochar is being developed as a candidate with great potential for climate change mitigation.
Sequestering biochar carbon in soil contributes greatly to the reduction of greenhouse …

Fire effects on the persistence of soil organic matter and long-term carbon storage

AFA Pellegrini, J Harden, K Georgiou, KS Hemes… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
One paradigm in biogeochemistry is that frequent disturbance tends to deplete carbon (C) in
soil organic matter (SOM) by reducing biomass inputs and promoting losses. However …

An overview of the effect of pyrolysis process parameters on biochar stability

L Leng, H Huang - Bioresource technology, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Biochar produced from biomass pyrolysis is becoming a powerful tool for carbon
sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction. Biochar C recalcitrance or …

Biochar stability in soil: meta‐analysis of decomposition and priming effects

J Wang, Z **ong, Y Kuzyakov - Gcb Bioenergy, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The stability and decomposition of biochar are fundamental to understand its persistence in
soil, its contribution to carbon (C) sequestration, and thus its role in the global C cycle. Our …

Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

D Frank, M Reichstein, M Bahn, K Thonicke… - Global change …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Extreme droughts, heat waves, frosts, precipitation, wind storms and other climate extremes
may impact the structure, composition and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, and thus …

Erosion, deposition and soil carbon: A review of process-level controls, experimental tools and models to address C cycling in dynamic landscapes

S Doetterl, AA Berhe, E Nadeu, Z Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The role of soil erosion in terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration and release remains one of
the most important uncertainties in our attempts to determine the potential of soils to mediate …