TY - JOUR
T1 - Biochars in soils: towards the required level of scientific understanding
AU - Tammeorg, Priit
AU - Bastos, Ana Catarina
AU - Jeffery, Simon
AU - Rees, Frédéric
AU - Kern, Jürgen
AU - Graber, Ellen R.
AU - Ventura, Maurizio
AU - Kibblewhite, Mark
AU - Amaro, António
AU - Budai, Alice
AU - Cordovil, Cláudia M.d.S.
AU - Domene, Xavier
AU - Gardi, Ciro
AU - Gascó, Gabriel
AU - Horák, Ján
AU - Kammann, Claudia
AU - Kondrlova, Elena
AU - Laird, David
AU - Loureiro, Susana
AU - Martins, Martinho A.S.
AU - Panzacchi, Pietro
AU - Prasad, Munoo
AU - Prodana, Marija
AU - Puga, Aline Peregrina
AU - Ruysschaert, Greet
AU - Sas-Paszt, Lidia
AU - Silva, Flávio C.
AU - Teixeira, Wenceslau Geraldes
AU - Tonon, Giustino
AU - Delle Vedove, Gemini
AU - Zavalloni, Costanza
AU - Glaser, Bruno
AU - Verheijen, Frank G.A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the EU COST Action TD1107 ?Biochar as option for sustainable resource management? for funding and the organizers of the meeting at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). We acknowledge also the contribution of Verena Lehr and Georg Lemmer for their participation in the meeting, as well as Gerhard Soja and Luke Beesley for interesting discussions. Finally we wish to thank the funding agencies: Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation and Finnish Cultural Foundation for the fellowships of P. Tammeorg, EUROCHAR project (FP7-ENV-2010 ? N 265179) for the fellowship of M. Ventura and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for the fellowships of A.C. Bastos (SFRH/BPD/98231/2013), F. G. A. Verheijen (SFRH/BPD/74108/2010) and M. Prodana (SFRH/BD/89891/2012). Thanks are also due, for the financial support to CESAM (UID/AMB/50017/2013), to FCT/MEC through national funds, and the co-funding by the FEDER (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007638), within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s) Published by VGTU Press and Informa UK Limited, [trading as Taylor & Francis Group].
PY - 2017/4/3
Y1 - 2017/4/3
N2 - Key priorities in biochar research for future guidance of sustainable policy development have been identified by expert assessment within the COST Action TD1107. The current level of scientific understanding (LOSU) regarding the consequences of biochar application to soil were explored. Five broad thematic areas of biochar research were addressed: soil biodiversity and ecotoxicology, soil organic matter and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, soil physical properties, nutrient cycles and crop production, and soil remediation. The highest future research priorities regarding biochar’s effects in soils were: functional redundancy within soil microbial communities, bioavailability of biochar’s contaminants to soil biota, soil organic matter stability, GHG emissions, soil formation, soil hydrology, nutrient cycling due to microbial priming as well as altered rhizosphere ecology, and soil pH buffering capacity. Methodological and other constraints to achieve the required LOSU are discussed and options for efficient progress of biochar research and sustainable application to soil are presented.
AB - Key priorities in biochar research for future guidance of sustainable policy development have been identified by expert assessment within the COST Action TD1107. The current level of scientific understanding (LOSU) regarding the consequences of biochar application to soil were explored. Five broad thematic areas of biochar research were addressed: soil biodiversity and ecotoxicology, soil organic matter and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, soil physical properties, nutrient cycles and crop production, and soil remediation. The highest future research priorities regarding biochar’s effects in soils were: functional redundancy within soil microbial communities, bioavailability of biochar’s contaminants to soil biota, soil organic matter stability, GHG emissions, soil formation, soil hydrology, nutrient cycling due to microbial priming as well as altered rhizosphere ecology, and soil pH buffering capacity. Methodological and other constraints to achieve the required LOSU are discussed and options for efficient progress of biochar research and sustainable application to soil are presented.
KW - biochar
KW - biodiversity
KW - ecosystem services
KW - ecotoxicology
KW - greenhouse gases
KW - nutrient cycles
KW - policy support
KW - soil organic matter
KW - soil physical properties
KW - soil remediation
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U2 - 10.3846/16486897.2016.1239582
DO - 10.3846/16486897.2016.1239582
M3 - Article
SN - 1648-6897
VL - 25
SP - 192
EP - 207
JO - Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management
IS - 2
ER -