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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825857203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-59726-782-1; 1-4356-2869-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.