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Biogeochemistry of the Critical Zone (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Biogeochemistry of the Critical Zone (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Advances in Critical Zone Science
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This book highlights recent advances in the discipline of
biogeochemistry that have directly resulted from the development of
critical zone (CZ) science. The earth's critical zone (CZ) is
defined from the weathering front and lowest extent of freely
circulating groundwater up through the regolith and to the top of
the vegetative canopy. The structure and function of the CZ is
shaped through tectonic, lithologic, hydrologic, climatic, and
biological processes and is the result of processes occurring at
multiple time scales from eons to seconds. The CZ is an open system
in which energy and matter are both transported and transformed.
Critical zone science provides a novel and unifying framework to
consider those coupled interactions that control biogeochemical
cycles and fluxes of energy and matter that are critical to
sustaining a habitable planet. Biogeochemical processes are at the
heart of energy and matter fluxes through ecosystems and
watersheds. They control the quantity and quality of carbon and
nutrients available for living organisms, control the retention and
export of nutrients affecting water quality and soil fertility, and
influence the ability for ecosystems to sequester carbon. As the
term implies, biogeochemical cycles, and the rates at which they
occur, result from the interaction of biological, chemical, and
physical processes. However, finding a unifying framework by which
to study these interactions is challenging, and the different
components of bio-geo-chemistry are often studied in isolation. The
authors provide both reviews and original research contributions
with the requirement that the chapters incorporate a CZ framework
to test biogeochemical theory and/or develop new and robust
predictive models regarding elemental cycles. The book demonstrates
how the CZ framework provides novel insights into biogeochemistry.
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