- Title
- Carbon bio-sequestration within the phytoliths of economic bamboo species
- Creator
- Parr, Jeffrey; Sullivan, Leigh; Chen, Bihua; Ye, Gongfu; Zheng, Weipeng
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/99696
- Identifier
- vital:10407
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02118.x
- Identifier
- ISSN:1354-1013
- Abstract
- The rates of carbon bio-sequestration within silica phytoliths of the leaf litter of 10 economically important bamboo species indicates that (a) there is considerable variation in the content of carbon occluded within the phytoliths (PhytOC) of the leaves between different bamboo species, (b) this variation does not appear to be directly related to the quantity of silica in the plant but rather the efficiency of carbon encapsulation by the silica. The PhytOC content of the species under the experimental conditions ranged from 1.6% to 4% of the leaf silica weight. The potential phytolith carbon bio-sequestration rates in the leaf-litter component for the bamboos ranged up to 0.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO
- Publisher
- Wiley Blackwell Publishing
- Relation
- Global Change Biology Vol. 16, no. 10 (2010), p. 2661-2667
- Rights
- Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 06 Biological Sciences; 05 Environmental Sciences; Occluded carbon; Organic matter decomposition; Phytoc; Phytoliths; Soil organic carbon; Terrestrial carbon sequestration
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