How big is the influence of biogenic silicon pools on short-term changes in water-soluble silicon in soils? Implications from a study of a 10-year-old soil–plant system

Puppe, Daniel; Höhn, Axel; Kaczorek, Danuta; Wanner, Manfred; Wehrhan, Marc; Sommer, Michael

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5239-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5239-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5239-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 22

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23 Nov 2017

Research article |

| 23 Nov 2017

How big is the influence of biogenic silicon pools on short-term changes in water-soluble silicon in soils? Implications from a study of a 10-year-old soil–plant system

Daniel Puppe, Axel Höhn, Danuta Kaczorek, Manfred Wanner, Marc Wehrhan, and Michael Sommer

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RC1: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Jul 2017
- AC1: 'Answers to the comments of Reviewer #2', Daniel Puppe, 10 Aug 2017
RC2: 'Comments of the MS', Anonymous Referee #3, 23 Sep 2017
- AC2: 'Answers to the comments of Reviewer #3', Daniel Puppe, 27 Sep 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (01 Oct 2017) by Yakov Kuzyakov

AR by Daniel Puppe on behalf of the Authors (05 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Oct 2017) by Yakov Kuzyakov

AR by Daniel Puppe on behalf of the Authors (16 Oct 2017)

Short summary

We quantified different biogenic Si pools in soils of a developing ecosystem and analyzed their influence on short-term changes of the water soluble Si fraction. From our results we concluded small (< 5 µm) and/or fragile phytogenic Si structures to have the biggest impact on short-term changes of water soluble Si. Analyses of these phytogenic Si structures are urgently needed in future as they seem to represent the most important driver of Si cycling in terrestrial biogeosystems in general.