Biochar porosity: a nature-based dependent parameter to deliver microorganisms to soils for land restoration.

Literature shows that biochar can potentially retain nutrients in agricultural soils, avoiding significant nutrient losses. Furthermore, biochar porosity and functional groups have been shown to enhance physico-chemical properties of soil when amended, which in turn has the ability to encourage inhabitation of specific microorganisms as biofertilizers or to enhance soil remediation. It supports scale-dependent parameters and provides both ecosystem services and soil-vegetation solutions relevant to nature-based solutions.

Indigenous C-phenanthrene biodegradation in "pristine" woodland and grassland soils from Norway and the United Kingdom.

In this study, the indigenous microbial mineralisation of C-phenanthrene in seven background soils (four from Norwegian woodland and three from the UK (two grasslands and one woodland)) was investigated. ∑PAHs ranged from 16.39 to 285.