Critical Zone Services 
March 14 - 3 PM ET
Presented by David Breshears & Jason Field, University of Arizona

In what specific ways do critical zone science and findings help expand the concept of ecosystem services to incorporate geosciences perspectives and help illuminate how they impact society?

Field et al. 2015 excerpt:

Here we expand the scope of ecosystem services by specifying how critical zone processes extend context both spatially and temporally, determine constraints that limit provision of services, and offer a potentially powerful currency for evaluation. Context: A critical zone perspective extends the context of ecosystem services by expressly addressing how the physical structure of the terrestrial Earth surface (e.g., parent material, topography, and orography) provides a broader spatial and temporal template determining the coevolution of physical and biological systems that result in societal benefits. Constraints: The rates at which many ecosystem services are provided are fundamentally constrained by rate-limited critical zone processes, a phenomenon that we describe as a conceptual “supply chain” that accounts for rate-limiting soil formation, hydrologic partitioning, and streamflow generation. Currency: One of the major challenges in assessing ecosystem services is the evaluation of their importance by linking ecological processes to societal benefits through market and nonmarket valuation.

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Topic: Critical Zone and Society
Time: Feb 28, 2017, 3:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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