Practical guide to measuring wetland carbon pools and fluxes

S Bansal, IF Creed, BA Tangen, SD Bridgham… - Wetlands, 2023 - Springer
Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global
carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes …

Changes in heavy metal mobility and availability from contaminated wetland soil remediated with combined biochar-compost

J Liang, Z Yang, L Tang, G Zeng, M Yu, X Li, H Wu… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
The combination of biochar and compost has been proven to be effective in heavy metals
contaminated wetland soil restoration. However, the influence of different proportions …

Estimating soil organic carbon through loss on ignition: effects of ignition conditions and structural water loss

MJJ Hoogsteen, EA Lantinga, EJ Bakker… - European Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Loss on ignition (LOI) is one of the most widely used methods for measuring organic matter
content in soils but does not have a universal standard protocol. A large number of factors …

Effects of heavy metals and soil physicochemical properties on wetland soil microbial biomass and bacterial community structure

C Zhang, S Nie, J Liang, G Zeng, H Wu, S Hua… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Heavy metals (HMs) contamination is a serious environmental issue in wetland soil.
Understanding the micro ecological characteristic of HMs polluted wetland soil has become …

Assessment of heavy metal contamination in soils at the Kpone landfill site, Ghana: Implication for ecological and health risk assessment

F Obiri-Nyarko, AA Duah, AY Karikari, WA Agyekum… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Concentrations of lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), mercury (Hg), and arsenic (As) in soils at
the Kpone landfill site (Ghana) were determined using Atomic Absorption …

Comparisons of three methods for organic and inorganic carbon in calcareous soils of northwestern China

X Wang, J Wang, J Zhang - 2012 - journals.plos.org
With increasing interest in the carbon cycle on arid land, there is an urgent need to quantify
both soil organic carbon (SOC) and inorganic carbon (SIC) thus to assess various methods …

Optimizing the weight loss-on-ignition methodology to quantify organic and carbonate carbon of sediments from diverse sources

Q Wang, Y Li, Y Wang - Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2011 - Springer
The sequential weight loss-on-ignition (WLOI) method for determination of organic and
carbonate or inorganic carbon (C) content was evaluated on sediments from diverse …

Responses of bacterial community and functional marker genes of nitrogen cycling to biochar, compost and combined amendments in soil

H Wu, G Zeng, J Liang, J Chen, J Xu, J Dai, X Li… - Applied Microbiology …, 2016 - Springer
Biochar and compost are seen as two attractive waste management options and are used
for soil amendment and pollution remediation. The interaction between biochar and …

Comparing four methods of measuring soil organic matter in North Carolina soils

WR Roper, WP Robarge, DL Osmond… - Soil Science Society …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas Results of agronomic management effects on SOM are inconsistent among
methods. Correlations among methods of measuring SOM differ depending on soil. Soil …

Efficiency of biochar and compost (or composting) combined amendments for reducing Cd, Cu, Zn and Pb bioavailability, mobility and ecological risk in wetland soil

G Zeng, H Wu, J Liang, S Guo, L Huang, P Xu, Y Liu… - Rsc Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Biochar and compost are two inexpensive and effective in situ remediation materials for
heavy metal contaminated soils. The interaction between biochar and compost (or …