Sustainable agriculture, characterized by farming profitably while minimizing damage to the
environment, is not easy to practice.“Conventional agriculture” worldwide is commonly …

Although tree nutrition has not been the primary focus of large climate change experiments
on trees, we are beginning to understand its links to elevated atmospheric CO2 and …

Biochar is a carbon‐rich coproduct resulting from pyrolyzing biomass. When applied to the
soil it resists decomposition, effectively sequestering the applied carbon and mitigating …

Background and aims Biochar can be produced from a wide range of organic sources with
varying nutrient and metal concentrations. Before making irreversible applications of biochar …

Robertson, SJ, Rutherford, PM, López-Gutiérrez, JC and Massicotte, HB 2012. Biochar
enhances seedling growth and alters root symbioses and properties of sub-boreal forest …

Charcoal is a ubiquitous legacy of wildfire in terrestrial systems that often contributes to rapid
revegetation following disturbance; the use of charcoal soil amendments, or “biochars”, to …

We summarize current knowledge about the ecosystem functions of fire‐produced charcoal
in boreal forests with a special focus on its effects on soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous …

Lack of eucalypt recruitment is a key factor in the decline of forest and woodland remnants in
low rainfall agricultural regions in Australia. Key to effective management of these forests is …

Charcoal used as a soil amendment, or “biochar,” has received considerable recent
research attention as a means to increase plant productivity while mitigating climate change …

Pyrolyzed organic matter, or biochar, generally increases the growth of established plants; in
some cases, biochar also promotes seed germination in agricultural species, but …