The effects of biochar addition on soil physicochemical properties: A review

Y Zhang, J Wang, Y Feng - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Excessive land use has a series consequences on the degradation of land function and
exerts tremendous pressure on the ecological environment. Farming, mining, and heavy …

Molecular insights and impacts of wildfire-induced soil chemical changes

AM Lopez, CCE Avila, JP VanderRoest… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Wildfires act as important ecosystem controls and can benefit fire-adapted biomes by
promoting habitat heterogeneity, seed germination and disease control. However, the …

Biophysical and economic constraints on China's natural climate solutions

N Lu, H Tian, B Fu, H Yu, S Piao, S Chen, Y Li… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions (NCS) are strategies for climate mitigation in the land sector that
increase carbon storage or avoid GHG emissions. Here we estimate China's historic NCS …

A critical review on arsenic removal from water using biochar-based sorbents: The significance of modification and redox reactions

R Amen, H Bashir, I Bibi, SM Shaheen, NK Niazi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biochar is considered to be the cost-effective, environmentally-friendly and sustainable
sorbent that has an extraordinary potential to efficiently remove toxic elements, including …

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 …

Wood-based biochar for the removal of potentially toxic elements in water and wastewater: a critical review

SM Shaheen, NK Niazi, NEE Hassan… - International …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently, biochar has received significant attention, especially for the removal of potentially
toxic elements (PTEs) from water and wastewater. No review has been focused on the …

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's stability and effect on the content, composition and turnover of soil organic carbon

L Han, K Sun, Y Yang, X **a, F Li, Z Yang, B **ng - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Extensive application of biochar to soil exerts a profound effect on organic carbon (OC) in
soils. However, the impact of biochar on the content and composition of OC has not been …

[HTML][HTML] Biochar-based fertilizer amendments improve the soil microbial community structure in a karst mountainous area

T Yan, J Xue, Z Zhou, Y Wu - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Biochar-based fertilizer amendment can improve soil properties partly due to stimulated
microbial activities and growths. The karst ecosystem is prone to degradation and accounts …

Natural climate solutions for the United States

JE Fargione, S Bassett, T Boucher, SD Bridgham… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Limiting climate warming to< 2° C requires increased mitigation efforts, including land
stewardship, whose potential in the United States is poorly understood. We quantified the …