Biochar Improves Soil Aggregate Stability and Water Availability in a Mollisol after Three Years of Field Application

Ningning Ma; Lili Zhang; Yulan Zhang; Lijie Yang; Chunxiao Yu; Guanghua Yin; Timothy A. Doane; Zhijie Wu; Ping Zhu; Xingzhu Ma

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154091

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Biochar Improves Soil Aggregate Stability and Water Availability in a Mollisol after Three Years of Field Application

Ningning Ma ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ningning Ma, Lili Zhang

Affiliation Soil Ecology and Agro-ecological Engineering Research Center, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, People`s Republic of China
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Lili Zhang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ningning Ma, Lili Zhang

* E-mail: llzhang@iae.ac.cn (LZ); ygh006@iae.ac.cn (GY)

Affiliation Soil Ecology and Agro-ecological Engineering Research Center, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, People`s Republic of China
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Yulan Zhang,

Affiliation Soil Ecology and Agro-ecological Engineering Research Center, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, People`s Republic of China
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Lijie Yang,

Affiliations Soil Ecology and Agro-ecological Engineering Research Center, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, People`s Republic of China, Graduate School, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People`s Republic of China
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Chunxiao Yu,

Affiliations Soil Ecology and Agro-ecological Engineering Research Center, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, People`s Republic of China, Graduate School, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People`s Republic of China
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Guanghua Yin ,

* E-mail: llzhang@iae.ac.cn (LZ); ygh006@iae.ac.cn (GY)

Affiliation Soil Ecology and Agro-ecological Engineering Research Center, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, People`s Republic of China
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Timothy A. Doane,

Affiliation Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California Davis, Davis 95616, United State of America
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Zhijie Wu,

Affiliation Soil Ecology and Agro-ecological Engineering Research Center, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, People`s Republic of China
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Ping Zhu,

Affiliation Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130033, People`s Republic of China
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Xingzhu Ma

Affiliation Institute of Soil Fertilizer and Environmental Resources, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, 150086, People`s Republic of China
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Biochar Improves Soil Aggregate Stability and Water Availability in a Mollisol after Three Years of Field Application

Ningning Ma,
Lili Zhang,
Yulan Zhang,
Lijie Yang,
Chunxiao Yu,
Guanghua Yin,
Timothy A. Doane,
Zhijie Wu,
Ping Zhu,
Xingzhu Ma

Published: May 18, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154091

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