Subject: [SANET-MG] Bio-char: The New Frontier

From: Steve Diver <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:24:12 -0500

Add these resources from Johannes Lehmann at Cornell
University to your Bio-char/Terra Preta library.

The web page on "Bio-char: The New Frontier" provides
a succinct summary of this fascinating practice.

Regards,

Steve Diver

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Bio-char: The New Frontier
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/biochar/Biochar_home.htm

Terra Preta de Indio
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/terra_preta/TerraPretahome.htm

Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properites, Management [Book]
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/terra_preta/Book/TerraPreta_book_publication.htm 

Chapter 6. Soil Fertility and Production Potential.
Lehmann J, Kern DC, German LA, McCann J, Martins GC
and Moreira A 2003; pp. 105-124.
In: Lehmann J, Kern DC, Glaser B and Woods WI (eds.)
Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/terra_preta/Book/12Lehmann.pdf

Chapter 7. Amazonian Dark Earths as carbon stores and sinks.
Sombroek W, Ruivo ML, Fearnside PM, Glaser B and Lehmann J 2003;
pp. 125-139.
In: Lehmann J, Kern DC, Glaser B and Woods WI (eds.)
Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/terra_preta/Book/13Sombroek.pdf

Nutrient availability and leaching in an archaeological Anthrosol and a
Ferralsol of the Central Amazon basin: fertilizer, manure and charcoal
amendments
Johannes Lehmann, Jose Pereira da Silva Jr., Christoph Steiner, Thomas
Nehls, Wolfgang Zech & Bruno Glaser
Plant and Soil 249: 343–357, 2003.
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/publ/PlantSoil%20249,%20343-357,%202003%20Lehmann.pdf 

Alternate URL:
http://tinyurl.com/tca2b

Bio-char sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems - A review
Johannes Lehmann, John Gaunt, and Marco Rondon
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change (2006) 11: 403–427
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/publ/MitAdaptStratGlobChange%2011,%20403-427,%20Lehmann,%202006.pdf 

Alternate URL:
http://tinyurl.com/wj2gr

Bio-char soil management on highly weathered soils in the humid tropics.
Lehmann J and Rondon M 2006; pp.517-530.
In: Uphoff N et al. (ed.)
Biological Approaches to Sustainable Soil Systems.
CRC Press, Boca Raton , FL.
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/publ/Lehmann%20et%20al.,%202006%20Bio-char%20soil%20management.pdf 

Alternate URL:
http://tinyurl.com/y43k8s

Microbial response to charcoal amendments of highly weathered soils
and Amazonian Dark Earths in Central Amazonia – preliminary results.
Steiner C, Teixeira WG, Lehmann J and Zech W 2004; pp. 195-212.
In: Glaser B and Woods WI (eds.)
Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Time and Space
Springer, Berlin, Germany
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/publ/Steiner%20et%20al.,%202004,%20Springer.pdf 

Alternate URL:
http://tinyurl.com/y2g9x4

Black Carbon Increases Cation Exchange Capacity in Soils
B. Liang, J. Lehmann, D. Solomon, J. Kinyangi, J. Grossman, et al
Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 70:1719–1730 (2006).
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/publ/SoilSciSocAmJ%2070,%201719-1730,%202006%20Liang.pdf 

Alternate URL:
http://tinyurl.com/y4vexe

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