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Soil properties and soil greenhouse gas emissions in biochar-amended bioenergy soils undergoing long term field incubation

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
4 September 2026
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Summary

Data collected during field and laboratory experiments to investigate the long-term effects of biochar application to soil on greenhouse gas emissions in a bioenergy plantation (Miscanthus X. giganteus). Analysis included monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O)), soil physical (bulk density and soil moisture ) and soil chemical analyses (total carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), extractable ammonium and nitrate). Biochar was applied to plots in a bioenergy plantation and emissions of CO2, CH4 and N2O were measured over a two-year period. In addition a laboratory incubation experiment was conducted on soil taken from the Miscanthus field amended with field-incubated biochar to assess the effect on greenhouse gas 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/e9baffd1-18ad-435e-94e2-01e49c14c547

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
02 September 2026
Harvest GUID
e9baffd1-18ad-435e-94e2-01e49c14c547
Extent (Latitude)
53.726° to 52.64°
Extent (Longitude)
-0.95° to 0.358°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2014-02-28
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); The University of Edinburgh (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng