Soil properties and soil greenhouse gas emissions in biochar-amended bioenergy soils incubated under controlled laboratory conditions

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. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2757e972-a7fe-494d-92c3-c3205dfdef19

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Metadata Language: English (en)

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2014-01-16

Identifier: CEH:EIDC: / 1385546340624

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2757e972-a7fe-494d-92c3-c3205dfdef19

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/2757e972-a7fe-494d-92c3-c3205dfdef19

Other citation details: 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 10.5285/2757e972-a7fe-494d-92c3-c3205dfdef19

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Dr. Niall McNamara

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Case, S.D.C.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - McNamara, N.P.

The University of Edinburgh - Reay, D.S.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Chaplow, J.S.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Whitaker, J.

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Soil

GeoNames

Lincolnshire

Keywords

Soil
biochar
chemistry
soil
N2O
nitrous oxide
greenhouse gas
emission

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: 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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Environment

Begin date: 2011-03-01

End date: 2012-01-31

Code: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: 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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Metadata Date: 2022-05-20T10:39:17

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Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK

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