Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services. Issue 1 (5th January 2015)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services. Issue 1 (5th January 2015)
- Main Title:
- Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services
- Authors:
- Field, Jason P.
Breshears, David D.
Law, Darin J.
Villegas, Juan C.
López-Hoffman, Laura
Brooks, Paul D.
Chorover, Jon
Barron-Gafford, Greg A.
Gallery, Rachel E.
Litvak, Marcy E.
Lybrand, Rebecca A.
McIntosh, Jennifer C.
Meixner, Thomas
Niu, Guo-Yue
Papuga, Shirley A.
Pelletier, Jon D.
Rasmussen, Craig R.
Troch, Peter A. - Abstract:
- Abstract : Processes within the critical zone—spanning groundwater to the top of the vegetation canopy—have important societal relevance and operate over broad spatial and temporal scales that often are not included in existing frameworks for ecosystem services evaluation. 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. We propose that critical zone processes be integrated into an evaluation currency, useful for valuation, byAbstract : Processes within the critical zone—spanning groundwater to the top of the vegetation canopy—have important societal relevance and operate over broad spatial and temporal scales that often are not included in existing frameworks for ecosystem services evaluation. 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. We propose that critical zone processes be integrated into an evaluation currency, useful for valuation, by quantifying the energy flux available to do thermodynamic work on the critical zone. In short, characterization of critical zone processes expands the scope of ecosystem services by providing context, constraints, and currency that enable more effective management needed to respond to impacts of changing climate and disturbances. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Vadose zone journal. Volume 14:Issue 1(2015)
- Journal:
- Vadose zone journal
- Issue:
- Volume 14:Issue 1(2015)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 14, Issue 1 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0014-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 1
- Page End:
- 7
- Publication Date:
- 2015-01-05
- Subjects:
- Soil science -- Periodicals
Zone of aeration -- Periodicals
Groundwater flow -- Periodicals
Groundwater flow
Zone of aeration
Periodicals
Electronic journals
631.4 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.soils.org/publications/vzj ↗
http://vzj.geoscienceworld.org/ ↗
https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15391663 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.2136/vzj2014.10.0142 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1539-1663
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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