Case, S.D.C.; McNamara, N.P.; Reay, D.S.; Chaplow, J.S.; Whitaker, J.
Soil properties and soil greenhouse gas emissions in biochar-amended bioenergy soils incubated under controlled laboratory conditions
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Case, S.D.C.; McNamara, N.P.; Reay, D.S.; Chaplow, J.S.; Whitaker, J. (2014). Soil properties and soil greenhouse gas emissions in biochar-amended bioenergy soils incubated under controlled laboratory conditions. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/2757e972-a7fe-494d-92c3-c3205dfdef19
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https://doi.org/10.5285/2757e972-a7fe-494d-92c3-c3205dfdef19
Data from an investigation of the effects of biochar application to soil on greenhouse gas emissions using soil from a bioenergy crop (Miscanthus X. giganteus). Data include physical (bulk density) and chemical analyses of the soil (total carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), extractable ammonium and nitrate), and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O)) during incubations. Data were collected during two incubation experiments investigating the effects of temperature, soil moisture and soil aeration on biochar induced suppression of GHG emissions. Biochar is a carbon rich substances which is being advocated as a climate mitigation tool to increase carbon sequestration and reduce nitrous oxide emissions.
Publication date: 2014-01-16
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Format
Comma-separated values (CSV)
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
Temporal extent
2011-03-01 to 2012-01-31
Provenance & quality
Twenty soil cores were collected from a field site in Lincolnshire in March 2011, three weeks after planting and Nitrogen fertiliser addition. Soil cores of 150-180 millimetre (mm) depth, containing approximately 1.6 kilogram soil (dry weight) were extracted in Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes (height 215 mm depth 102 mm) and stored at 4 degrees centigrade for 30 days. A four-treatment factorial experiment was designed using soils un-amended or amended with biochar and un-wetted or wetted with deionised water (5 replicates per treatment). Soil in all the cores was mixed to 7 centimetre (cm) depth. To half of the cores, biochar (less than 2 mm) was mixed into the soil at a rate of 3 percent soil dry weight (approximately 22 tons per hectare (t ha-1)). After allowing for any potential Carbon dioxide (CO2) flush from newly-mixed soil to equilibrate for seven days, the cores were placed at 16 degrees centigrade in the dark. Un-wetted soil cores were maintained at 23 percent Gravimetric moisture content (GMC), whilst the GMC of 'wetted' soil cores was increased to 28 percent GMC at the time zero (t0) of four wetting events on day 17, 46, 67 and 116. These water addition rates were based on mean and maximum monthly soil GMC measured in the field between 2009-2010.
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This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Cite this dataset as:
Case, S.D.C.; McNamara, N.P.; Reay, D.S.; Chaplow, J.S.; Whitaker, J. (2014). Soil properties and soil greenhouse gas emissions in biochar-amended bioenergy soils incubated under controlled laboratory conditions. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/2757e972-a7fe-494d-92c3-c3205dfdef19
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Supplemental information
Case, Sean D.C.; McNamara, Niall P.; Reay, David S.; Whitaker, Jeanette. 2012 The effect of biochar addition on N2O and CO2 emissions from a sandy loam soil: the role of soil aeration. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 51. 125-134.
Correspondence/contact details
McNamara, N.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
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UNITED KINGDOM
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Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
Authors
Reay, D.S.
University of Edinburgh
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