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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778230703321

Titolo

The silicon cycle [[electronic resource] ] : human perturbations and impacts on aquatic systems / / edited by Venugopalan Ittekkot ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2006

ISBN

1-59726-782-1

1-4356-2869-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Scope series ; ; 66

Altri autori (Persone)

IttekkotV <1945-> (Venugopalan)

Disciplina

577/.14

Soggetti

Silicon cycle (Biogeochemistry)

Aquatic ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Ch. 1: Introduction""; ""Ch. 2: Silicate Weathering in South Asian Tropical River Basins""; ""Ch. 3: Silicon in the Terrestrial Biogeosphere""; ""Ch. 4: Factors Controlling Dissolved Silica in Tropical Rivers""; ""Ch. 5: Dissolved Silica Dynamics in Boreal and Arctic Rivers: Vegetation Control over Temperature?""; ""Ch. 6: Dissolved Silica in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and Adjacent Coastal Waters of the East China Sea""; ""Ch. 7: Atmospheric Transport of Silicon""

""Ch. 8: Estuarine Silicon Dynamics""""Ch. 9: Physiological Ecology of Diatoms Along the River - Sea Continuum""; ""Ch. 10: Modeling Silicon Transfer Processes in River Catchments""; ""Ch. 11: Role of Diatoms in Silicon Cycling and Coastal Marine Food Webs""; ""Ch. 12: Responses of Coastal Ecosystems to Anthropogenic Perturbations of Silicon Cycling""; ""Ch. 13: Silicon Isotope-Based Reconstructions of the Silicon Cycle""; ""Ch. 14: Long-Term Oceanic Silicon Cycle and the Role of Opal Sediment""; ""Ch. 15: The Perturbed Silicon Cycle""; ""Contributors""; ""SCOPE Series List""; ""Index""