‘One physical system’: Tansley's ecosystem as Earth's critical zone

Emergent and divergent resilience behavior in catastrophic shift systems

(2015) Venkatraman Srinivasan et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Deep soil: Quantification, modeling, and significance of subsurface nitrogen

(2015) Jason James et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fe 2+ catalyzed iron atom exchange and re-crystallization in a tropical soil

(2015) Viktor Tishchenko et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

(2015) Jan Zalasiewicz et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services

(2015) Jason P. Field et al.   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

Warming-induced enhancement of soil N2O efflux linked to distinct response times of genes driving N2O production and consumption

(2014) S. A. Billings et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Breaking the enzymatic latch: impacts of reducing conditions on hydrolytic enzyme activity in tropical forest soils

(2014) Steven J. Hall et al.   ECOLOGY

An historical perspective on forest succession and its relevance to ecosystem restoration and conservation practice in North America

(2014) Norman L. Christensen   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Simultaneous improvement in productivity, water use, and albedo through crop structural modification

(2014) Darren T. Drewry et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Surficial gains and subsoil losses of soil carbon and nitrogen during secondary forest development

(2014) Megan L. Mobley et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatial Variation in Soil Properties among North American Ecosystems and Guidelines for Sampling Designs

(2014) Henry Loescher et al.   PLoS One

A bottom-up control on fresh-bedrock topography under landscapes

(2014) D. M. Rempe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bedrock composition regulates mountain ecosystems and landscape evolution

(2014) W. Jesse Hahm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Differential effects of pH on temperature sensitivity of organic carbon and nitrogen decay

(2014) Kyungjin Min et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A New Worldview of Soils

(2014) Henry Lin   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Viewing forests through the lens of complex systems science

(2014) Elise Filotas et al.   Ecosphere

Modeling novel stable isotope ratios in the weathering zone

(2013) J. Bouchez et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Probing deep weathering in the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, Pennsylvania (USA): the hypothesis of nested chemical reaction fronts in the subsurface

(2013) Susan L. Brantley et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Exploring geochemical controls on weathering and erosion of convex hillslopes: beyond the empirical regolith production function

(2013) Marina I. Lebedeva et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Coevolution of nonlinear trends in vegetation, soils, and topography with elevation and slope aspect: A case study in the sky islands of southern Arizona

(2013) Jon D. Pelletier et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Earth surface erosion and weathering from the 10Be (meteoric)/9Be ratio

(2012) Friedhelm von Blanckenburg et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Where fast weathering creates thin regolith and slow weathering creates thick regolith

(2012) Ekaterina Bazilevskaya et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Rock damage and regolith transport by frost: an example of climate modulation of the geomorphology of the critical zone

(2012) Robert S. Anderson et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

When Wet Gets Wetter: Decoupling of Moisture, Redox Biogeochemistry, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in a Humid Tropical Forest Soil

(2012) Steven J. Hall et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Elemental weathering fluxes and saprolite production rate in a Central African lateritic terrain (Nsimi, South Cameroon)

(2012) Jean-Jacques Braun et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Coupling meteoric 10Be with pedogenic losses of 9Be to improve soil residence time estimates on an ancient North American interfluve

(2012) Allan R. Bacon et al.   GEOLOGY

Nitrogen loss from soil through anaerobic ammonium oxidation coupled to iron reduction

(2012) Wendy H. Yang et al.   Nature Geoscience

Temperature-mediated changes of exoenzyme-substrate reaction rates and their consequences for the carbon to nitrogen flow ratio of liberated resources

(2012) Christoph A. Lehmeier et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

“The Changing Model of Soil” Revisited

(2012) Daniel deB Richter et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Rain, rock moisture dynamics, and the rapid response of perched groundwater in weathered, fractured argillite underlying a steep hillslope

(2012) Rohit Salve et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Increased forest ecosystem carbon and nitrogen storage from nitrogen rich bedrock

(2011) Scott L. Morford et al.   NATURE

Units of nature or processes across scales? The ecosystem concept at age 75

(2011) William S. Currie   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene

(2011) J. Zalasiewicz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

How Water, Carbon, and Energy Drive Critical Zone Evolution: The Jemez–Santa Catalina Critical Zone Observatory

(2011) Jon Chorover et al.   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

An open system framework for integrating critical zone structure and function

(2010) Craig Rasmussen et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

The dependence of chemical weathering rates on fluid residence time

(2010) K. Maher   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Strong climate and tectonic control on plagioclase weathering in granitic terrain

(2010) C. Rasmussen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Quantifying lateral root reinforcement in steep slopes - from a bundle of roots to tree stands

(2010) M. Schwarz et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Microbial communities acclimate to recurring changes in soil redox potential status

(2010) Kristen M. DeAngelis et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Deep soil organic matter—a key but poorly understood component of terrestrial C cycle

(2010) Cornelia Rumpel et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Increased belowground biomass and soil CO2fluxes after a decade of carbon dioxide enrichment in a warm-temperate forest

(2009) Robert B. Jackson et al.   ECOLOGY

The impact of water–rock interaction and vegetation on calcium isotope fractionation in soil- and stream waters of a small, forested catchment (the Strengbach case)

(2009) B. Cenki-Tok et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Monitoring Earth's Critical Zone

(2009) D. deB. Richter et al.   SCIENCE

Rhizogenic Fe–C redox cycling: a hypothetical biogeochemical mechanism that drives crustal weathering in upland soils

(2008) Ryan L. Fimmen et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

The turnover of organic carbon in subsoils. Part 1. Natural and bomb radiocarbon in soil profiles from the Rothamsted long-term field experiments

(2008) D. S. Jenkinson et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

CO2efflux from Amazonian headwater streams represents a significant fate for deep soil respiration

(2008) Mark S. Johnson et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Altered patterns of soil carbon substrate usage and heterotrophic respiration in a pine forest with elevated CO2and N fertilization

(2008) SHARON A. BILLINGS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil respiration, root biomass, and root turnover following long-term exposure of northern forests to elevated atmospheric CO2and tropospheric O3

(2008) Kurt S. Pregitzer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST