This book provides up-to-date information on biochar use in management of soil health, agriculture productivity, green-house gases, restoration ecology and environment. Biochar application to nutrient deficient and disturbed soils is a viable option which may promotes advances in food safety and food security to human nutrition and overall fundamental research in the agricultural sciences. The book describes in detail how the recalcitrant biochar is able to persist for long periods of time and work as a shelter for soil microbial colonisation and their biomass/numbers. This book also includes contents related to important role of biochar applications in the restoration of contaminated agricultural soils. The book will be of particular interest to students, teachers and researchers in the disciplines.
Biochar production can also be combined with bioenergy production through the use of the gases that are given off in the pyrolysis process. This book is the first to synthesize the expanding research literature on this topic.
... and are known as ecosystem engineers. The interest in how biochar affects these ecosystem engineers dates to the last couple of decades. It has been suggested that earthworms can ingest biochar. As an example, James and Cunningham ...
As such, it has potential for solving many agricultural and environmental problems.This book is divided into five sections: “Introduction,” “Production and Legislation of Biochar,” “Applications of Biochar for Soil Fertility ...
The first edition of this book, published in 2009, was the definitive work reviewing the expanding research literature on this topic.
This book will be important to agricultural engineers and researchers as well as those seeking to improve overall soil and environmental conditions through the use of biochar.
Plant physiology and plant water relationships guide agronomic options to improve the efficiency with which crops use water. The sustainable water management in irrigated farming systems, and in semiarid environments, is depending on ...
This book on non-soil biochar applications aims to highlight the diversity of biochar as a multi-functional material and introduce some new and emerging applications to the wider scientific community.
This book on biochar is a comprehensive account of preparation of biochar from agricultural waste. It provides a roadmap in development of future strategy for pollution abatement and sustainable waste management.
This book includes information on state-of-art biochar application technologies in the fields of agriculture, energy and environmental sciences with step-by-step case studies.
... A. McComiskey, J. Brioude, O. R. Cooper, A. Stohl, K. C. Aikin, J. A. D. Gouw, D. W. Fahey, R. A. Ferrare, R.-S. Gao, W. Gore, J. S. Holloway, G. Hübler, A. Jefferson, ... Brown, R. A., A. Kercherb, T. Nguyen, D. Nagle, and W. Ball.