Research Assistant University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
This field-trial study is a response to calls for region and site specific research on biochar applications, and investigates the effects of biochar soil amendments on seedling growth, drought resilience, and the vegetative community composition over 5 years.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participant will be able to describe the benefits of biochar application both as a quantifiable climate change mitigation tool, but also as a potential tool for climate change adaptation in drought prone stands facing regeneration challenges.
Upon completion, participant will be able to describe the importance of replication of biochar amendment studies over a broad spectrum of differing climates, forest communities, and soil types, and the way these factors, combined with differences in the way the biochar is produced, can influence biochar's potential it as a regeneration tool.
