Costanza Zavalloni

TL;DR: A short-term incubation study was carried out to investigate the effect of biochar addition to soil on CO 2 emissions, microbial biomass, soil soluble carbon (C) nitrogen (N) and nitrate-nitrogen (NO 3 -N) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the single and combined impacts of climate warming and species richness on the biomass production in experimental grassland communities, and suggest that warming and the associated soil drying could reduce primary production in many temperate grasslands and that this will not necessarily be mitigated by efforts to maintain or increase species richness.

TL;DR: In this article, soil was sampled from biochar-amended and control plots of four biochar field trials at Lincoln (UK), Rivignano, Rocca Bernarda and Beano in Italy.

TL;DR: A tantalizing view of the soil microbiome at several sites across Europe is given and suggests that although application of biochar has significant effects on microbial communities, these may be small compared with the highly variable soil microbiome that is found in different soils and changes with time.

TL;DR: Below-ground characteristics of five Populus clones were studied during the second growing season of the third rotation of a high-density coppice culture to conclude that leaf area index can be an indicator of root area.