Biochar soil amendment increased bacterial but decreased fungal gene abundance with shifts in community structure in a slightly acid rice paddy from Southwest China

By Junhui Chen, Xiaoyu Liu, Jin-wei Zheng, Bin Zhang, Haifei Lu, Zhongzhi Chi, G. Pan, Lianqing Li, Jufeng Zheng, Xuhui Zhang and 2 more. 2013

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Effects and mechanisms of biochar-microbe interactions in soil improvement and pollution remediation: A review. (2017, methodology): “To clearly interpret the microbial responses to biochar application in soils, gene copy numbers can serve as a more sensitive parameter than microbial biomass (Chen et al., 2013).”
Biochar alters the soil microbiome and soil function: results of next‐generation amplicon sequencing across Europe (2017, background): “Studies of fungi have indicated a decline in alpha (a) diversity due to the inability of fungal taxa to adapt to rapid variation in the soil environment (Hu et al., 2014) and shifts in community composition (Chen et al., 2013).”
Changes in soil microbial community structure and enzyme activity with amendment of biochar-manure compost and pyroligneous solution in a saline soil from Central China (2015, result): “In agreement with this finding, Chen and co-authors [47] reported significant increase in bacterial 16S rRNA gene abundance but a decrease in fungal 18S rRNA gene abundance following biochar amendment to a rice paddy soil.”