Activated Carbon as a Restoration Tool: Potential for Control of Invasive Plants in Abandoned Agricultural Fields

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Biochar in bioenergy cropping systems: impacts on soil faunal communities and linked ecosystem processes (2013, background): “Although such effects of biochar have not yet been documented, activated carbon is a well-known inhibitor of plant chemical signals (Kulmatiski & Beard, 2006; Ridenour & Callaway, 2001).”
Allelopathy, an alternative tool to improve cropping systems. A review (2011, background): “Activated carbon may also sequester organic nitrogen and phosphorus from the soil, thereby reducing the mineralisation rate of these nutrients and their availability (Kulmatiski and Beard, 2006; Lau et al., 2008).”
Biochar: a synthesis of its agronomic impact beyond carbon sequestration. (2012, background): “Biochar-induced yield improvements are further complicated by the occasional delayed response, with negative or no impact in the initial year followed by yield increases of varying degrees in subsequent years (Kulmatiski and Beard, 2006; Gaskin et al., 2010; Major et al., 2010b).”
Soil History as a Primary Control on Plant Invasion in Abandoned Agricultural Fields (2006, background): “For example, sawdust and activated C additions can manipulate soil biology and chemistry and have been suggested as management tools for native plant restoration (Corbin & D’Antonio 2004; Kulmatiski & Beard 2006).”