Soil and greenhouse gas responses to biochar additions in a temperate hardwood forest

GCB Bioenergy

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1062-1074

  Sackett, Tara E ^a   Basiliko, Nathan ^a,b   Noyce, Genevieve L ^a   Winsborough, Carolyn ^a   Schurman, Jonathan ^a   Ikeda, Chihiro ^a,c   Thomas, Sean C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium; Carbon dioxide; Methane; Microbial biomass; Microbial respiration; Nitrous oxide; Nutrients; Phosphorus; Potassium

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; HARDWOODS; MAGNESIUM; METHANE; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM;

AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; CALCIUM CONCENTRATION; GREENHOUSE GAS FLUXES; INORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROUS OXIDE;

SOILS;

BIOCHAR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROUS OXIDE; NUTRIENT; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; RESPIRATION; SOIL FERTILITY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ACER; PICEA;

EID: 84938996933     PISSN: 17571693     EISSN: 17571707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12211     Document Type: Article

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