Inclusion of biochar in a C dynamics model based on observations from an 8-year field experiment

Pulcher, Roberta; Balugani, Enrico; Ventura, Maurizio; Greggio, Nicolas; Marazza, Diego

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-199-2022

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

SOIL, 8, 199–211, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-199-2022

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SOIL, 8, 199–211, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-199-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

Original research article 17 Mar 2022

Original research article | 17 Mar 2022

Inclusion of biochar in a C dynamics model based on observations from an 8-year field experiment

Roberta Pulcher et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-199-2022-supplement

Data sets

Pulcher_2022_SoilArticleDatabase_InclusionofbiocharinaCdynamicsmodelbased Roberta Pulcher, Enrico Balugani, and Maurizio Ventura https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6355587

Short summary

Biochar, a solid product from the thermal conversion of biomass, can be used as a climate change mitigation strategy, since it can sequester carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil. The aim of this study is to assess the potential of biochar as a mitigation strategy in the long term, by modelling the results obtained from an 8-year field experiment. As far as we know, this is the first time that a model for biochar degradation has been validated with long-term field data.