Liu, XiaoyuZheng, JufengZhang, DengxiaoCheng, KunZhou, HuiminZhang, AfengLi, LianqingJoseph, StephenSmith, PeteCrowley, DavidKuzyakov, YakovPan, Genxing2017-06-012017-06-012016-06-01Liu, X, Zheng, J, Zhang, D, Cheng, K, Zhou, H, Zhang, A, Li, L, Joseph, S, Smith, P, Crowley, D, Kuzyakov, Y & Pan, G 2016, 'Biochar has no effect on soil respiration across Chinese agricultural soils', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 554-555, pp. 259-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.1790048-9697ORCID: /0000-0002-3784-1124/work/162728102http://hdl.handle.net/2164/8737This work was supported by NSFC (41371298 and 41371300), Ministry of Science and Technology (2013GB23600666 and 2013BAD11B00), and Ministry of Education of China (20120097130003). The international cooperation was funded under a “111” project by the State Agency of Foreign Expert Affairs of China and jointly supported under a grant for Priority Disciplines in Higher Education by the Department of Education, Jiangsu Province, China; The work was also a contribution to the cooperation project of “Estimates of Future Agricultural GHG Emissions and Mitigation in China” under the UK-China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (SAIN). Pete Smith contributed to this work under a UK BBSRC China Partnership Award. The authors are grateful to Yuming Liu, Bin Zhang, Xiao Li, Gang Wu, Jinjin Qu and Yinxin Ye and Dongqi Liu for their contribution to field experiments, and to Rongjun Bian and Qaiser Hussain for their participation in discussions of the data analysis and interpretation, and to Xinyan Yu and Jiafang Wang for their assistance in lab works.7737873engbiocharsoil respirationcarbon stabilitygreenhouse gas mitigationagricultural soilsmicrobial activityQH301 BiologyBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)QH301Journal article10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.179554