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Yalan Chen
Beijing Normal University · 🇨🇳 CN

Career Stage: Senior

CDR Specialization

Soil Carbon

Enhancing carbon storage in agricultural and terrestrial soils through management practices and biochar amendment.

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Top CDR Publications

1. Biochar stability and impact on soil organic carbon mineralization depend on biochar processing, aging and soil clay content (2022) 229 citations · Biochar

2. Effects of biochar on the accumulation of necromass-derived carbon, the physical protection and microbial mineralization of soil organic carbon (2023) 94 citations · Biochar

3. Changes in soil properties and CO2 emissions after biochar addition: Role of pyrolysis temperature and aging (2022) 64 citations · Biochar

4. Microbially Driven Iron Cycling Facilitates Organic Carbon Accrual in Decadal Biochar-Amended Soil (2024) 47 citations · Biochar

5. Photodegradation of pyrogenic dissolved organic matter increases bioavailability: Novel insight into bioalteration, microbial community succession, and C and N dynamics (2022) 37 citations · Ocean CDR

6. Biochar as a green solution to drive the soil carbon pump (2024) 17 citations · Biochar

7. Aggregate size mediates the stability and temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon in response to decadal biochar and straw amendments (2025) 7 citations · Biochar

8. The preferential preservation of both different minerals and polyethylene microplastics on aromatic or aliphatic carbon fractions within low or high pyrolysis temperature biochar under mineralization (2022) 6 citations · Biochar

9. Biochar and straw application reshape organic carbon pool via altering soil carbon pump function based on a decadal field experiment (2025) 3 citations · Biochar

10. High-Dose Biochar Hinders Micro/Nanoplastic-Induced Soil Positive Priming by Reducing Substrate Quality and Microbial Activity (2026) 1 citations · Biochar

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