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Assessing Phosphorus Availability in a High pH, Biochar Amended Soil under Inorganic and Organic Fertilization
Millicent Wanjiku Kahura1
,
Hyun-Gi Min1
,
Min-Suk Kim1
,
Jeong-Gyu Kim1*
,
,
,
1Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Graduate School, Korea University
*교신저자. *Corresponding Author. 
31 March 2018. pp. 11-18
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Abstract

Phosphorous remains as one of the most limiting nutrients to plant growth, second only to nitrogen. Research on use of biochar as a soil amendment for available phosphorus in temperate calcareous soils has limited studies compared with to tropical acidic soils. An incubation experiment to assess phosphorous availability in a biochar amended calcareous soil under inorganic (Fused superphosphate, FSP) and organic fertilizer (bone meal, BM) and respectively, at the dose of 40, 80 and 120 mg P kg-1 was carried out. Soil was incubated at 25oC for 70 days. Results show that the rate of increase in available P was proportional to the fertilizer application rate with or without biochar amendment. Biochar did not have a significant effect on soils amended with either fertilizer on the values of available P. However, time had a significant effect (p<0.001) on the amount of available P during the incubation period. Inorganic fertilizer treatments had recorded high amount of available P with time compared to organic fertilizer treatments. Organic fertilizer treatment sample were significantly not different from control and for most of the incubation time biochar acted as a soil conditioner. Further research is required to understand the holistic and long-term effect of biochar.

Keywords
Biochar
Bone meal
Fused superphosphate
Phosphorous

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  • Publisher :Korean Society of Ecology and Infrastructure Engineering
  • Publisher(Ko) :응용생태공학회
  • Journal Title :Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
  • Journal Title(Ko) :응용생태공학회 논문집
  • Volume : 5
  • No :1
  • Pages :11-18
  • Received Date : 2018-01-15
  • Revised Date : 2018-01-27
  • Accepted Date : 2018-03-05
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.17820/eri.2018.5.1.011
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