Johannes Lehmann

Research interests

Publications

• Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage

  Nature · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06042-3

• Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality

  The Innovation · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100180

• How biochar works, and when it doesn't: A review of mechanisms controlling soil and plant responses to biochar

  GCB Bioenergy · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12885

• Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy

  Nature Communications · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18887-7

• The concept and future prospects of soil health

  Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2020 · 10.1038/s43017-020-0080-8

• Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

  Nature Geoscience · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0612-3

• Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter

  Global Change Biology · 2019 · 10.1111/gcb.14781

• Climate-smart soils

  Nature · 2016 · 10.1038/nature17174

• The contentious nature of soil organic matter

  Nature · 2015 · 10.1038/nature16069

• Characterization of biochars to evaluate recalcitrance and agronomic performance

  Bioresource Technology · 2012 · 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.03.022

• The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon

  Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · 2012 · 10.1016/j.agee.2012.10.001

• Adsorption of copper and zinc by biochars produced from pyrolysis of hardwood and corn straw in aqueous solution

  Bioresource Technology · 2011 · 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.06.078

• Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

  Nature · 2011 · 10.1038/nature10386

• Biochar effects on soil biota – A review

  Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2011 · 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.04.022

• Maize yield and nutrition during 4 years after biochar application to a Colombian savanna oxisol

  Plant and Soil · 2010 · 10.1007/s11104-010-0327-0

• Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change

  Nature Communications · 2010 · 10.1038/ncomms1053

• An investigation into the reactions of biochar in soil

  Soil Research · 2010 · 10.1071/sr10009

• Life Cycle Assessment of Biochar Systems: Estimating the Energetic, Economic, and Climate Change Potential

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2009 · 10.1021/es902266r

• Long term effects of manure, charcoal and mineral fertilization on crop production and fertility on a highly weathered Central Amazonian upland soil

  Plant and Soil · 2007 · 10.1007/s11104-007-9193-9

• Bio-energy in the black

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2007 · 10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5[381:bitb]2.0.co;2

• A handful of carbon

  Nature · 2007 · 10.1038/447143a

• Mycorrhizal responses to biochar in soil – concepts and mechanisms

  Plant and Soil · 2007 · 10.1007/s11104-007-9391-5

• Bio-char Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems – A Review

  Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change · 2006 · 10.1007/s11027-005-9006-5

• Black Carbon Increases Cation Exchange Capacity in Soils

  Soil Science Society of America Journal · 2006 · 10.2136/sssaj2005.0383

• Biological nitrogen fixation by common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) increases with bio-char additions

  Biology and Fertility of Soils · 2006 · 10.1007/s00374-006-0152-z

• Oxidation of black carbon by biotic and abiotic processes

  Organic Geochemistry · 2006 · 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.06.022

• Nutrient availability and leaching in an archaeological Anthrosol and a Ferralsol of the Central Amazon basin: fertilizer, manure and charcoal amendments

  Plant and Soil · 2003 · 10.1023/a:1022833116184

• Ameliorating physical and chemical properties of highly weathered soils in the tropics with charcoal - a review

  Biology and Fertility of Soils · 2002 · 10.1007/s00374-002-0466-4

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