The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system

AI Coppola, S Wagner, ST Lennartz, M Seidel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Black carbon (BC) is produced by incomplete combustion of biomass by wildfires and
burning of fossil fuels. BC is environmentally persistent over centuries to millennia …

Potential hazards of biochar: The negative environmental impacts of biochar applications

L Xiang, S Liu, S Ye, H Yang, B Song, F Qin… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biochar has been widely used as an environmentally friendly material for soil improvement
and remediation, water pollution control, greenhouse gas emission reduction, and other …

Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral‐associated forms to address global change in the 21st century

JM Lavallee, JL Soong, MF Cotrufo - Global change biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Managing soil organic matter (SOM) stocks to address global change challenges requires
well‐substantiated knowledge of SOM behavior that can be clearly communicated between …

The performance of visible, near-, and mid-infrared reflectance spectroscopy for prediction of soil physical, chemical, and biological properties

JM Soriano-Disla, LJ Janik… - Applied spectroscopy …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This review addresses the applicability of visible (Vis), near-infrared (NIR), and mid-infrared
(MIR) reflectance spectroscopy for the prediction of soil properties. We address (1) the …

Biochar stability in soil: decomposition during eight years and transformation as assessed by compound-specific 14C analysis

Y Kuzyakov, I Bogomolova, B Glaser - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Stability and transformation products of incomplete combustion of vegetation or fossil fuel,
frequently called pyrogenic or black carbon and of biochar in soil, remains unknown mainly …

[PDF][PDF] Hydrothermal carbonization of biomass residuals: a comparative review of the chemistry, processes and applications of wet and dry pyrolysis

JA Libra, KS Ro, C Kammann, A Funke, ND Berge… - Biofuels, 2011 - researchgate.net
The carbonization of biomass residuals to char has strong potential to become an
environmentally sound conversion process for the production of a wide variety of products …

Dynamic molecular structure of plant biomass-derived black carbon (biochar)

M Keiluweit, PS Nico, MG Johnson… - Environmental science & …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Char black carbon (BC), the solid residue of incomplete combustion, is continuously being
added to soils and sediments due to natural vegetation fires, anthropogenic pollution, and …

The pyrogenic carbon cycle

MI Bird, JG Wynn, G Saiz, CM Wurster… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Pyrogenic carbon (PyC; includes soot, char, black carbon, and biochar) is produced by the
incomplete combustion of organic matter accompanying biomass burning and fossil fuel …

A review of biochar and its use and function in soil

SP Sohi, E Krull, E Lopez-Capel, R Bol - Advances in agronomy, 2010 - Elsevier
Agricultural activities and soils release greenhouse gases, and additional emissions occur
in the conversion of land from other uses. Unlike natural lands, active management offers …

[PDF][PDF] Review of the stability of biochar in soils: predictability of O: C molar ratios

KA Spokas - 2010 - researchgate.net
Biochar is not a structured homogeneous material; rather it possesses a range of chemical
structures and a heterogeneous elemental composition. This variability is based on the …