دورية أكاديمية
Biochar in agriculture – A systematic review of 26 global meta‐analyses
العنوان: | Biochar in agriculture – A systematic review of 26 global meta‐analyses |
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المؤلفون: | Hans‐Peter Schmidt, Claudia Kammann, Nikolas Hagemann, Jens Leifeld, Thomas D. Bucheli, Miguel Angel Sánchez Monedero, Maria Luz Cayuela |
المصدر: | GCB Bioenergy, Vol 13, Iss 11, Pp 1708-1730 (2021) |
بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2021. |
سنة النشر: | 2021 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Renewable energy sources |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | anthropogenic dark earth (ADE), biochar‐based fertilization, climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas emissions, negative emission technology (NET), pyrogenic carbon capture and storage (PyCCS), Renewable energy sources, TJ807-830, Energy industries. Energy policy. Fuel trade, HD9502-9502.5 |
الوصف: | Abstract Biochar is obtained by pyrolyzing biomass and is, by definition, applied in a way that avoids its rapid oxidation to CO2. Its use in agriculture includes animal feeding, manure treatment (e.g. as additive for bedding, composting, storage or anaerobic digestion), fertilizer component or direct soil application. Because the feedstock carbon is photosynthetically fixed CO2 from the atmosphere, producing and applying biochar is essentially a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology, which has a high‐technology readiness level. However, for swift implementation of pyrogenic carbon capture and storage (PyCCS), biochar use in agriculture needs to deliver co‐benefits, for example, by improving crop yields and ecosystem services and/or by improving climate change resilience by ameliorating key soil properties. Agronomic biochar research is a rapidly evolving field of research moving from less than 100 publications in 2010 to more than 15,000 by the end of 2020. Here, we summarize 26 rigorously selected meta‐analyses published since 2016 that investigated a multitude of soil properties and agronomic performance parameters impacted by biochar application, for example, effects on yield, root biomass, water use efficiency, microbial activity, soil organic carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. All 26 meta‐analyses show compelling evidence of the overall beneficial effect of biochar for all investigated agronomic parameters. One of the remaining challenges is the standardization of basic biochar analysis, still lacking in many studies. Incomplete biochar characterization increases uncertainty because adverse effects of individual studies included in the meta‐analyses might be related to low‐quality biochars, which would not qualify for certification and subsequent use (e.g. high content of contaminants, high salinity, incomplete pyrolysis, etc.). In summary, our systematic review suggests that biochar use in agriculture has the potential to combine CDR with significant agronomic and/or environmental co‐benefits. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1757-1707 1757-1693 |
Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1757-1693; https://doaj.org/toc/1757-1707 |
DOI: | 10.1111/gcbb.12889 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/5a59ecd0ad664dc4bc224227e1bc618a |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.5a59ecd0ad664dc4bc224227e1bc618a |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 17571707 17571693 |
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DOI: | 10.1111/gcbb.12889 |