Emerging understanding of the ecosystem silica filter

Ecosystem properties determined by plant functional group identity

(2010) Jennie R. McLaren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

An enormous amorphous silica stock in boreal wetlands

(2010) Eric Struyf et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Wetland development, permafrost history and nutrient cycling inferred from late Holocene peat and lake sediment records in subarctic Sweden

(2010) Ulla Kokfelt et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Dissolution of biogenic silica from land to ocean: Role of salinity and pH

(2010) Socratis Loucaide et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Silica uptake in aquatic and wetland macrophytes: a strategic choice between silica, lignin and cellulose?

(2010) Jonas Schoelynck et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Historical land use change has lowered terrestrial silica mobilization

(2010) Eric Struyf et al.   Nature Communications

Silicon: its manifold roles in plants

(2009) E. Epstein   ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY

Chemical weathering in the Three Rivers region of Eastern Tibet

(2009) Hyonjeong Noh et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Spatial variations in chemical weathering and CO2 consumption in Nepalese High Himalayan catchments during the monsoon season

(2009) Domenik Wolff-Boenisch et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Reactivity of biogenic silica: Surface versus bulk charge density

(2009) Socratis Loucaides et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Plant-driven fungal weathering: Early stages of mineral alteration at the nanometer scale

(2009) Steeve Bonneville et al.   GEOLOGY

Global patterns of dissolved silica export to the coastal zone: Results from a spatially explicit global model

(2009) A. H. W. Beusen et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Anthropogenic perturbations of the silicon cycle at the global scale: Key role of the land-ocean transition

(2009) G. G. Laruelle et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Diversity dynamics of marine planktonic diatoms across the Cenozoic

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   NATURE

Diatoms in peat – Dominant producers in a changing environment?

(2009) Ulla Kokfelt et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The reserve of weatherable primary silicates impacts the accumulation of biogenic silicon in volcanic ash soils

(2008) C. Henriet et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Plant silicon isotopic signature might reflect soil weathering degree

(2008) S. Opfergelt et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Are silica defences in grasses driving vole population cycles?

(2008) F.P Massey et al.   Biology Letters

Biogenic silica: a neglected component of the coupled global continental biogeochemical cycles of carbon and silicon

(2008) F. Alayne Street-Perrott et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Silica: an essential nutrient in wetland biogeochemistry

(2008) Eric Struyf et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Chemical weathering and CO2 consumption in the Xijiang River basin, South China

(2008) Quanzhou Gao et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Towards an understanding of late Quaternary variations in the continental biogeochemical cycle of silicon: multi-isotope and sediment-flux data for Lake Rutundu, Mt Kenya, East Africa, since 38 ka BP

(2008) F. Alayne Street-Perrott et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Modelling the biogeochemical cycle of silicon in soils: Application to a temperate forest ecosystem

(2007) F. Gérard et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA