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The Silicon Cycle

Human Perturbations and Impacts on Aquatic Systems
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Silicon is among the most abundant elements on earth. It plays a key but largely unappreciated role in many biogeochemical processes, including those that regulate climate and undergird marine food webs.

 

The Silicon Cycle is the first book in more than 20 years to present a comprehensive overview of the silicon cycle and issues associated with it. The book summarizes the major outcomes of the project Land-Ocean Interactions: Silica Cycle, initiated by the Scientific Community on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). It tracks the pathway of silicon from land to sea and discusses its biotic and abiotic  modifications in transit as well as its cycling in the coastal seas. Natural geological processes in combination with atmospheric and hydrological processes are discussed, as well as human perturbations of the natural controls of the silicon cycle.

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Chapter 1. Introduction \ Venugopalan Ittekkot, Daniela Unger, Christoph Humborg, and Nguyen Tac An
Chapter 2. Silicate Weathering in South Asian Tropical River Basins \ Vaidyanatha Subramanian, Venugopalan Ittekkot, Daniela Unger, and Natarajan Madhavan
Chapter 3. Silicon in the Terrestrial Biogeosphere \ Daniel J. Conley, Michael Sommer, Jean Dominique Meunier, Danuta Kaczorek, and Loredana Saccone
Chapter 4. Factors Controlling Dissolved Silicate in Tropical Rivers \ Tim C. Jennerjahn, Bastiaan A. Knoppers, Weber F.L. de Souza, Gregg J. Brunskill, E. Ivan, L. Silva, and Seno Adi 
Chapter 5. Dissolved Silica Dynamics in Boreal and Arctic Rivers: Vegetation Control over Temperature? \ Christoph Humborg, Lars Rahm, Erik Smedberg, Carl-Magnus Morth, Asa Danielsson
Chapter 6. Dissolved Silica in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and Adjacent Coastal Waters of the East China Sea \ Jing Zhang, Su Mei Liu, Ying Wu, Xiao Hong Qi, Guo Sen Zhang, and Rui Xiang Li
Chapter 7. Atmospheric Transport of Silicon \ Ina Tegen and Karen E. Kohfeld
Chapter 8. Estuarine Silicon Dynamics \ Lei Chou and Roland Wollast
Chapter 9. Physiological Ecology of Diatoms Along the River-Sea Continuum \ Pascal Claquin, Aude Leynaert, Agata Sferratore, Josette Garnier, and Olivier Ragueneau
Chapter 10. Modelling Silicon Transfer Processes in River Catchments \ Josette Garnier, Agata Sferratore, Michel Meybeck, Gilles Billen, and Hans Durr
Chapter 11. Role of Diatoms in Silicon Cycling and Coastal Marine Food Webs
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