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Title The silicon cycle : human perturbations and impacts on aquatic systems / edited by Venugopalan Ittekkot ... [and others]
Published Washington, DC : Island Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description xix, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series Scope series ; 66
SCOPE (Series) ; 66
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Silicate weathering in South Asian Tropical River Basins -- 3. Silicon in the terrestrial biosphere -- 4. Factors controlling dissolved silicate in tropical rivers -- 5. Dissolved silicate dynamics in boreal and subarctic rivers: vegetation control over temperature? -- 6. Dissolved silica in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and adjacent coastal waters of the East China Sea -- 7. Atmospheric transport of Silicon -- 8. Estuarine Silicon Dynamics -- 9. Physiological ecology of diatoms along the river-sea continuum -- 10. Modelling silica transfer processes in river catchments -- 11. Role of diatoms in silicon cycling and coastal marine food webs -- 12. Responses of coastal ecosystems to anthropogenic perturbations of silicon cycling -- 13. Silicon Isotope-based reconstructions of the silica cycle -- 14. Long-term oceanic silicon cycle and the role of opal sediment -- 15. The perturbed silicon cycle
Notes "A project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Silicon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Aquatic ecology.
Author Ittekkot, V. (Venugopalan), 1945-
International Council for Science. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.
LC no. 2006012462
ISBN 9781597261142 hardback
1597261149 hardback
9781597261159 paperback
1597261157 paperback