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Nutrient recycling using biochar on plinthosol of Burkina Faso : a soil-plant column experiment

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Blondiau, Lucie ULiège
Promotor(s) : Cornelis, Jean-Thomas ULiège
Date of defense : 27-Aug-2018 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/5088
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Title : Nutrient recycling using biochar on plinthosol of Burkina Faso : a soil-plant column experiment
Author : Blondiau, Lucie ULiège
Date of defense  : 27-Aug-2018
Advisor(s) : Cornelis, Jean-Thomas ULiège
Committee's member(s) : Charles, Catherine ULiège
Colinet, Gilles ULiège
Burgeon, Victor ULiège
Destain, Jean-Pierre ULiège
Language : English
Number of pages : 53
Keywords : [en] Burkina Faso, Plinthosol, co-composted biochar, mineral loaded biochar, nutrient cycling, soil columns experiment
Discipline(s) : Life sciences > Agriculture & agronomy
Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences > Earth sciences & physical geography
Life sciences > Environmental sciences & ecology
Target public : Researchers
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Institution(s) : Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique
Degree: Master en bioingénieur : sciences et technologies de l'environnement, à finalité spécialisée
Faculty: Master thesis of the Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (GxABT)

Abstract

[en] Most soils in Burkina Faso are highly weathered and have low nutrients and organic matter contents. Hence, organic and mineral fertilisers are necessary to maintain the nutrients balance and crops productivity. However, because of high leaching rates during wet seasons, plants do not efficiently uptake these fertilisers. Biochar has been heralded as a solution for nutrients retention and soil quality improvement. Despite low initial nutrients concentrations, woody biochar nutrients properties can be boosted by combination with nutrients-rich compounds that entails nutrients releasing for longer time period in the soil. Therefore, nutrients loaded biochar could serve as a new slow release fertiliser in West Africa.
This work studied two enhanced biochar: compost activated (CBC) and NPK loaded (MBC) biochar and focused on their effects on nutrients recycling in a plinthosol from Burkina Faso in a soil column experiment.
Five treatments have been studied: co-composted biochar (CBC), compost (C), pristine biochar (BC), NPK loaded biochar (MBC) and reference columns (T). The cycling of nutrients under these different treatments has been analysed through the study of soil columns leachates and plants minerals uptakes.
The results showed no significant differences between the shoot yields and the plants nutrients uptake. In terms of initial stock, CBC and BC treatments allowed better cations retention and yet, did not reduce phosphorus (P) leaching. On the contrary, MBC decreased P leaching but not cations losses.
This study set the first explanatory steps to understand the effects of nutrients loaded cotton biochar in plinthosols and how this new technology could be used effectively to solve soils fertility problems encountered in West Africa.


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  • Charles, Catherine ULiège Université de Liège - ULiège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges
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  • Colinet, Gilles ULiège Université de Liège - ULiège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Echanges Eau-Sol-Plantes
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  • Burgeon, Victor ULiège Université de Liège - ULiège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Echanges Eau-Sol-Plantes
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  • Destain, Jean-Pierre ULiège Université de Liège - ULiège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Ingénierie des productions végétales et valorisation
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