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| Silicon’s organic pool and biological cycle in moso bamboo community of Wuyishan Biosphere Reserve |
| LI Zhen-ji, LIN Peng, HE Jian-yuan, YANG Zhi-wei, LIN Yi-ming |
| College of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China; Administrative Bureau of Wuyishan National Nature Reserve, Wuyishan 354315, China |
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Abstract Biomineralization of Si by plants into phytolith formation and precipitation of Si into clays during weathering are two important processes of silicon’s biogeochemical cycle. As a silicon-accumulating plant, the widely distributed and woody Phyllostachys heterocycla var. pubescens (moso bamboo) contributes to storing silicon by biomineralization and, thus, prevents eutrophication of nearby waterbodies through silicon’s erosion of soil particles.
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Received: 27 March 2006
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