MARSCHNER REVIEW
Mycorrhizal responses to biochar in soil – concepts
and mechanisms
Daniel D.
Warnock & Johannes Lehmann &
Thomas W.
Kuyper & Matthias C.
Rillig
Received: 19 April 2007 /Accepted: 9 August 2007 /Published online: 19 September 2007
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MARSCHNER REVIEW
Mycorrhizal responses to biochar in soil – concepts
and mechanisms
Daniel D.
Warnock & Johannes Lehmann &
Thomas W.
Kuyper & Matthias C.
Rillig
Received: 19 April 2007 /Accepted: 9 August 2007 /Published online: 19 September 2007
# Springer Science + Business Media B.
V.
2007
Abstract Experiments suggest that biomass-derived
black carbon (biochar) affects microbial populations
and soil biogeochemistry.
Both biochar and mycorrhizal associations, ubiquitous symbioses in terrestrial
ecosystems, are potentially important in various
ecosystem services provided by soils, contributing to
sustainable plant production, ecosystem restoration,
and soil carbon sequestration and hence mitigation of
global climate change.
As both biochar and mycorrhizal associations are subject to management, understanding and exploiting interactions between them
could be advantageous.
Here we focus on biochar
effects on mycorrhizal associations.
After reviewing
the experimental evidence for
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