ArticleScientific reports2016
The microbiomes and metagenomes of forest biochars.
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- Biochar enhances soil interactions and the initial development of sugarcane.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Pyrolysis Temperature vs. Application Rate of Biochar Amendments: Impacts on Soil Microbiota and Metribuzin Degradation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- The mechanisms of biochar interactions with microorganisms in soil.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2020Review
- Biochar and compost effects on soil microbial communities and nitrogen induced respiration in turfgrass soils.PloS one · 2020Article
- Comparative Metagenomics Reveals Enhanced Nutrient Cycling Potential after 2 Years of Biochar Amendment in a Tropical Oxisol.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2019Article
- Nitrogen loading effects on nitrification and denitrification with functional gene quantity/transcription analysis in biochar packed reactors at 5 °C.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Extensive Overlap of Tropical Rainforest Bacterial Endophytes between Soil, Plant Parts, and Plant Species.Microbial ecology · 2018Article
- Unexpected Dominance of Elusive Acidobacteria in Early Industrial Soft Coal Slags.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Charcoal Disrupts Soil Microbial Communication through a Combination of Signal Sorption and Hydrolysis.ACS omega · 2016Article
- Thermal treatment and leaching of biochar alleviates plant growth inhibition from mobile organic compounds.PeerJ · 2016Article
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Abstract
Biochar particles have been hypothesized to provide unique microhabitats for a portion of the soil microbial community, but few studies have systematically compared biochar communities to bulk soil communities. Here, we used a combination of sequencing techniques to assess the taxonomic and functional characteristics of microbial communities in four-year-old biochar particles and in adjacent soils across three forest environments. Though effects varied between sites, the microbial community living in and around the biochar particles had significantly lower prokaryotic diversity and higher eukaryotic diversity than the surrounding soil. In particular, the biochar bacterial community had proportionally lower abundance of Acidobacteria, Planctomycetes, and β-Proteobacteria taxa, compared to the soil, while the eukaryotic biochar community had an 11% higher contribution of protists belonging to the Aveolata superphylum. Additionally, we were unable to detect a consistent biochar effect on the genetic functional potential of these microbial communities for the subset of the genetic data for which we were able to assign functions through MG-RAST. Overall, these results show that while biochar particles did select for a unique subset of the biota found in adjacent soils, effects on the microbial genetic functional potential appeared to be specific to contrasting forest soil environments.
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