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Effect of rice straw biochar on three different levels of Cd-contaminated soils: Cd availability, soil properties, and microbial communities

Journal

CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 301, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134551

Keywords

Heavy metal pollution; Biochar; Soil remediation; Bacterial community; Fungal community

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41977116]
  2. Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province [2020B1111370001, 2019B110207001]
  3. Basic and Applied Research Program of Guangdong Province [2019A1515012187]

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This study found that rice straw biochar has different immobilization mechanisms for cadmium (Cd) in soils with different levels of contamination. Biochar can reduce the soluble fraction of Cd in soils and affect Cd availability by modifying soil properties and microbial community diversity.
Biochar can be effective in immobilizing soil cadmium (Cd), but the difference in its immobilization mechanisms for different levels of Cd-contaminated soils was overlooked. In this study, rice straw biochar (BC) was added to three Cd-contaminated soils following 180 days of incubation, in the process of which the dynamic changes of Cd speciation, soil properties and microbial community diversity were determined. BC could significantly reduce the ratio of acid-soluble in the three soils, especially in light and medium Cd-contaminated soils by more than 20%. The addition of biochar could significantly increase the soil pH, soil organic matter, cation exchange capacity, and the activities of catalase, but decrease the richness and diversity of bacterial communities in all soils. The associations between microbial communities were inhibited in light and medium Cd-contaminated soils, but promoted in heavy Cd-contaminated soils. Furthermore, the main pathway of BC effect on soil Cd availability was also analyzed by partial least squares model (PLS-PM), which indicated that BC indirectly reduced Cd availability mainly by regulating the microbial community in light Cd-contaminated soil, whereas BC directly

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