Biochar has been heralded as an amendment to revitalize degraded soils, improve soil
carbon sequestration, increase agronomic productivity, and enter into future carbon trading …

Natural organic biomass burning creates black carbon which forms a considerable
proportion of the soil's organic carbon. Due to black carbon's aromatic structure it is …

▪ Abstract Managed grazing covers more than 25% of the global land surface and has a
larger geographic extent than any other form of land use. Grazing systems persist under …

Deforestation and land-use change in tropics have increased over the past decades, driven
by the demand for agricultural products. Although phosphorus (P) is one of the main limiting …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 939–947 Abstract Tropical rain forests play a dominant role in
global biosphere‐atmosphere CO2 exchange. Although climate and nutrient availability …

The influence of charcoal and smoke condensates (pyroligneous acid, PA) on microbial
activity in a highly weathered Amazonian upland soil was assessed via measurements of …

Biochar—charcoal used to amend land and sequester carbon—is attracting considerable
interest. Its distinctive physical/chemical/biological properties, including high water-holding …

Over the past several decades, the conversion of native forest to agricultural land uses has
accelerated across the Amazon Basin. Despite a growing body of research on nutrient …

Forest ecologists and biogeochemists have used a variety of extraction techniques to assess
labile vs. non-labile soil P pools in chronosequences, the balance between biological vs …

Biochar as a soil amendment is confronted with the challenge that it must benefit soil health
as it can be by no means separated from soils once it is added. The available literature even …