“…Second, incorporation of the biochar reduced soil acidity and increased soil CEC (Liang et al, ); thus, soil surface became more negatively charged and increased anion repulsion and subsequently decreased the P adsorption by the soils (Murphy & Stevens, ). The Haplic Luvisol showed increases in pH and CEC with biochar application (Table ), so P desorption may have been responsible for increasing P solubility (e.g., H 2 O‐P i ) in the soils (Jiang, Yuan, Xu, & Bish, ). Third, biochar application changed the form of Fe, Al, Ca, and other agents of P adsorption (fixation), all of which significantly influenced soil P transformation (Parvage, Ulén, Eriksson, Strock, & Kirchmann, ; Srivastava, Gupta, Shikha, & Tewari, ; Xu, Wei, Sun, Shao, & Chang, ).…”