Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services
10 Feb 2015
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Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services
The Earth’s “critical zone” (CZ)--extending from the top of the vegetation canopy to the bottom of groundwater table--provides a host of ecosystem services, and a new paper in the Vadose Zone Journal now suggests incorporating CZ processes into the conventional definition of ecosystem services. This, the authors argue, will offer a more thorough framework for assessing the impacts of climate change and associated disturbances on the Earth’s capacity to continue providing these crucial services. Read more at CSA News Magazine - Article
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Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services. Field J.P., Breshears D.D., Law D.J., Villegas J.C., López-Hoffman L., Brooks P.D., Chorover J., Barron-Gafford G.A., Gallery R.E., Litvak M.E., Lybrand R.A., McIntosh J.C., Meixner T., Niu G-Y., Papuga S.A., Pelletier J.D., Rasmussen C.R., and Troch P.A (2015): Vadose Zone Journal 14(1)
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