Abstract:
Yellow soil is the main soil type supporting agricultural production in Guizhou Province. Special Karst geological conditions and abundant rainfall in Guizhou Province cause soil nutrients intense leaching, and water pollution. Biochar can be used to improve soil environments and to control nutrient leaching. However, effects of biochar on nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients and leaching in yellow soil remain unclear. We used soil columns containing 0 kg/m
2 (B0), 2 kg/m
2 (B2), 4 kg/m
2 (B4) and 6 kg/m
2 (B6) biochar to simulate the nitrogen and phosphorus leaching at laboratory and tested total nitrogen, total phosphorus,

and

in leachate and soil nutrient contents in soils. The results showed that soil pH, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, available nitrogen and available phosphorus increased with the increasing of biochar addition. The addition of biochar resulted in the reduction of loss of water. Under the application of 2 kg/m
2, 4 kg/m
2, 6 kg/m
2 biochar to soils, the leachate volume decreased by 0.3%, 1.5% and 2.0% than those without adding biochar to soils, respectively. Under the same fertilization conditions, the addition of biochar significantly reduced TP, TN,

and

in leachate from soil columns than those without addition. The addition of 2 kg/m
2 biochar to soils was optimum. In general, applying bio-char into yellow soil can improve soils and effectively reduce the loss of soil nutrients, and there is the most suitable biochar additions to achieve the TP, TN,

,

leaching control.