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Peer-reviewed Publications

Upeksha et al. (2025): Costs and benefits of afforestation with renewable electricity-based desalination: Case study for Egypt

Upeksha Caldera, Andreas Mühlbauer, Mai ElSayed, Arman Aghahosseiini, Christian Breyer IN: Smart Energy, 17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.segy.2025.100174

Aim of this research is to show how Egypt can make use of its plentiful renewable resources, available land area, and access to the sea, to establish cost-effective afforestation irrigated with renewable energy-based seawater desalination for land degradation mitigation.

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Nature – Gui et al. (2025): Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration

Xiangyang Gui, Xiaoyun Xu, Zehong Zhang, Liyang Hu, Wenfeng Huang, Ling Zhao, Xinde Cao IN: Communications Earth & Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01985-5

This work is aimed to explore if the extra sorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) exists in the biochar-amended soil, which has not yet received attention. Here the authors put biochar and mineral-rich biochar into soils to perform laboratory CO2 sorption experiments.

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Liu et al. (2024): Improving soil carbon sequestration stability in Siraitia grosvenorii farmland through co-application of rice straw and its biochar

Xuehui Liu, Yu Yang, Yaqi Xie, Yicheng Zeng, Lening Hu, Ke Li IN: Frontiers in Plant Science, 15, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1470486

This study was designed to investigate the impact of different return-to-field methods of rice straw on the transformation between different carbon components in the soil of Siraitia grosvenorii fields. The authors hypothesize that rice straw and its biochar, as soil amendments, can influence the transformation and cycling of different carbon components in the soil of S. grosvenorii fields through various return-tofield methods. Rice straw, rice straw biochar, and “rice straw + rice straw biochar” were applied as additives in a 2-year field experiment.

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Baumann et al. (2023): Counteracting effects of nutrient composition (Si:N) on export flux under artificial upwelling

Moritz Baumann, Silvan U. Goldenberg, Jan Taucher, Mar Fernández-Méndez, Joaquin Ortiz, Jacqueline Haussmann and Ulf Riebesell IN: Front. Mar. Sci., Sec. Marine Biogeochemistry 10; doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1181351

Ocean artificial upwelling of nutrient-rich water stimulates primary productivity and could enhance the biological carbon pump for natural CO2 removal. Its potential may depend on the Si availability in the upwelled water, which regulates the abundance of diatoms that are key carbon exporters. In a mesocosm experiment, we tested the effect of nutrient composition (Si relative to N) in artificially upwelled waters on export quantity and quality in a subtropical oligotrophic environment.

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