Effects of biochar on soil microbial diversity and community structure in clay soil

Annals of Microbiology

Table 1 Soil physical and chemical properties between different amounts of biochar added

Treatments	SMC	SP	AN	NN	AP	AK	OMC
Treatments	(%)	(%)	(mg/kg)	(mg/kg)	(mg/kg)	(mg/kg)	(g/kg)
MC	18 ± 1.3a	47 ± 00.3a	8.13 ± 1.012	21.46 ± 1.318a	21.50 ± 5.200	131.67 ± 3.786a	5.62 ± 1.650a
BS	18 ± 0.3a	51 ± 00.1b	11.74 ± 4.839	36.62 ± 1.519b	25.87 ± 3.092	291.00 ± 84.894b	34.73 ± 7.870b
MCS	20 ± 0.5b	52 ± 00.7c	10.15 ± 2.121	42.04 ± 2.090c	24.00 ± 2.835	420.67 ± 66.606b	45.33 ± 10.957b

Different lowercase letters in the same column indicate a significant difference at the 0.05 level. MC, BS, and MCS represent the biochar addition amount of 0 t/m³, 10 t/m³, and 20 t/m³ respectively
SMC soil moisture content, SP soil porosity, AN ammonium nitrogen, NN nitrate nitrogen, AP available phosphorus, AK available K, OMC organic matter content

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