Linkage of Crop Productivity to Soil Nitrogen Dynamics under Biochar Addition: A Meta-Analysis across Field Studies

Autor: Leiyi Zhang, Meixia Zhang, Yantao Li, Jianling Li, Yiming Jing, Yangzhou Xiang, Bin Yao, Qi Deng
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Agronomy, Vol 12, Iss 2, p 247 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-4395
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12020247
Popis: Biochar addition is a promising solution to improve soil nitrogen (N) availability and enhance crop productivity. However, a comprehensive understanding of the impact of soil N dynamics on crop productivity under biochar addition remains elusive. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis from 93 peer-reviewed field experiments to synthesize the linkage of crop productivity to soil N dynamics under biochar addition. The results show that biochar addition significantly enhanced crop productivity by 12.8% and plant N uptake (PNU) by 22.6%, and there was a strongly positive relationship between crop productivity and PNU. Biochar addition also significantly increased the contents of soil total N (TN), inorganic N (IN), microbial biomass N (MBN), and biological N2 fixation (BNF) by 3.34–18.7%, but reduced nitrous oxide (N2O) emission by 15.9%. Further analysis with the aggregated boosted tree model indicated that the TN and BNF played the most important roles in biochar-induced change in crop productivity. However, while crop productivity was positively correlated with TN under biochar addition, it showed a negative correlation with BNF. These findings suggest that biochar addition could enhance crop growth and productivity through increasing the soil N resource and N uptake, but this was not true for some N2-fixing crops, probably because they were usually constrained by nutrients other than N.
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