Burned phytoliths absorbing black carbon as a potential proxy for paleofire

Cellulose intrafibrillar mineralization of biological silica in a rice plant

(2021) Eri Nakamura et al.   Scientific Reports

A critical appraisal of charcoal morphometry as a paleofire fuel type proxy

(2021) Richard S. Vachula et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Effects of CO2 and temperature on phytolith dissolution

(2021) Anh T.Q. Nguyen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The morphology of experimentally produced charcoal distinguishes fuel types in the Arctic tundra

(2020) Eleanor MB Pereboom et al.   HOLOCENE

Neoformed aluminosilicate and phytogenic silica are competitive sinks in the silicon soil–plant cycle

(2020) Zimin Li et al.   GEODERMA

The ratio of microcharcoal to phytolith content in soils as a new proxy of fire activity

(2020) Mengdan Wen et al.   HOLOCENE

Auto-Fluorescent Phytoliths: A New Method for Detecting Heating and Fire

(2020) Yannick Devos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

FTIR Nanospectroscopy Shows Molecular Structures of Plant Biominerals and Cell Walls

(2020) Victor M. R. Zancajo et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Temperature-controlled tundra fire severity and frequency during the last millennium in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska

(2019) Jarunetr Sae-Lim et al.   HOLOCENE

International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature (ICPN) 2.0

(2019) et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The Relative Importance of Cell Wall and Lumen Phytoliths in Carbon Sequestration in Soil: A Hypothesis

(2019) Martin J. Hodson   Frontiers in Earth Science

A 15,400-year long record of vegetation, fire-regime, and climate changes from the northern Patagonian Andes

(2019) Ignacio A. Jara et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Straw phytolith for less hazardous open burning of paddy straw

(2019) Anh T. Q. Nguyen et al.   Scientific Reports

Determining phytolith-occluded organic carbon sequestration using an upgraded optimized extraction method: indicating for a missing carbon pool

(2018) Ning Han et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

History of fires and vegetation since the Neolithic in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)

(2018) Virginia Carracedo et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Spatial distribution characteristics and environmental significance of phytoliths in surface sediments of Qingshitan Lake in Southwest China

(2018) Rencheng Li et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Global fire history of grassland biomes

(2018) Berangere A. Leys et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Does fuel type influence the amount of charcoal produced in wildfires? Implications for the fossil record

(2017) Victoria A. Hudspith et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Testing phytolith analysis approaches to estimate the prehistoric anthropogenic burning regime on the central California coast

(2017) Rand R. Evett et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Monthly variations of phytoliths in the leaves of the bamboo Dendrocalamus ronganensis (Poaceae: Bambusoideae)

(2017) Rencheng Li et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Phytolith carbon sequestration in global terrestrial biomes

(2017) Zhaoliang Song et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The development of phytoliths in plants and its influence on their chemistry and isotopic composition. Implications for palaeoecology and archaeology

(2016) Martin J. Hodson   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Monthly changes in chain length distributions and stable carbon isotope composition of leaf n-alkanes during growth of the bamboo Dendrocalamus ronganensis and the grass Setaria viridis

(2016) Rencheng Li et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

A 23,000-year microscopic charcoal record from Anderson Pond, Tennessee, USA

(2016) Joanne P. Ballard et al.   PALYNOLOGY

The relationship between past vegetation type and fire frequency in western Japan inferred from phytolith and charcoal records in cumulative soils

(2016) Jun Inoue et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The Phytolith 14C Puzzle: A Tale of Background Determinations and Accuracy Tests

(2016) Guaciara M Santos et al.   RADIOCARBON

Influence of increasing combustion temperature on the AMS 14C dating of modern crop phytoliths

(2014) Jinhui Yin et al.   Scientific Reports

Impact of rice cultivar and organ on elemental composition of phytoliths and the release of bio-available silicon

(2014) Zimin Li et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The effects of chemical composition and distribution on the preservation of phytolith morphology

(2013) Yan Wu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Application of non-grass phytoliths in reconstructing deltaic environments: A study from the Indian Sunderbans

(2013) Sayantani Das et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Comparison of two methods for the isolation of phytolith occluded carbon from plant material

(2013) Jeffrey F. Parr et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Towards producing pure phytolith concentrates from plants that are suitable for carbon isotopic analysis

(2013) Rémi Corbineau et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Carbon sequestration within millet phytoliths from dry-farming of crops in China

(2011) XinXin Zuo et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Late Quaternary environmental change inferred from phytoliths and other soil-related proxies: Case studies from the central and southern Great Plains, USA

(2010) Carlos E. Cordova et al.   CATENA

Carbon bio-sequestration within the phytoliths of economic bamboo species

(2009) JEFFREY PARR et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Can soil phytolith analysis and charcoal be used as indicators of historic fire in the pinyon-juniper and sagebrush steppe ecosystem types of the Great Basin Desert, USA?

(2009) Lesley R. Morris et al.   HOLOCENE

Phytoliths and microcharcoal at Jinluojia archeological site in middle reaches of Yangtze River indicative of paleoclimate and human activity during the last 3000 years

(2009) Rencheng Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Reconstructing past fire regimes: methods, applications, and relevance to fire management and conservation

(2009) Marco Conedera et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Sugarcane phytoliths: Encapsulation and sequestration of a long-lived carbon fraction

(2009) Jeff Parr et al.   Sugar Tech