Interdisciplinary Sciences in a Global Network of Critical Zone Observatories

This preface for the special section, Interdisciplinary Sciences in Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs), provides a brief background of the emerging Critical Zone science and its related CZOs. Highlights of 14 papers included in this special section are summarized to illustrate initial research outcomes from several CZOs on both disciplinary and interdisciplinary topics across soil science, hydrology, biogeochemistry, geomorphology, geophysics, and ecosystem ecology. In closing, a brief future outlook is presented for moving forward the science that can be generated from a global network of CZOs.

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[4]  Dylan Beaudette,et al.  Soil Moisture Response to Snowmelt and Rainfall in a Sierra Nevada Mixed‐Conifer Forest , 2011 .

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[6]  Panagos Panagiotis,et al.  Assessing Soil Processes and Function across an International Network of Critical Zone Observatories: Research Hypotheses and Experimental Design , 2011 .

[7]  S. P. Anderson,et al.  Seismic Constraints on Critical Zone Architecture, Boulder Creek Watershed, Front Range, Colorado , 2011 .

[8]  Martin Novak,et al.  Soil Processes and Functions in Critical Zone Observatories: Hypotheses and Experimental Design , 2011 .

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[10]  Susan L. Brantley,et al.  Hot Spots and Hot Moments of Dissolved Organic Carbon Export and Soil Organic Carbon Storage in the Shale Hills Catchment , 2011 .

[11]  S. P. Anderson,et al.  Critical Zone Observatories: Building a network to advance interdisciplinary study of Earth surface processes , 2008, Mineralogical Magazine.

[12]  Lixin Jin,et al.  Opening the “Black Box”: Water Chemistry Reveals Hydrological Controls on Weathering in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory , 2011 .

[13]  K. Takagi,et al.  Temporal Dynamics of Soil Moisture Spatial Variability in the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory , 2011 .

[14]  F. Hagedorn,et al.  Chemical and Biological Gradients along the Damma Glacier Soil Chronosequence, Switzerland , 2011 .

[15]  D. Dethier,et al.  Mineralogic and Geochemical Changes from Alteration of Granitic Rocks, Boulder Creek Catchment, Colorado , 2011 .

[16]  K. Singha,et al.  Quantifying Solute Transport at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory , 2011 .

[17]  Irena Hajnsek,et al.  A Network of Terrestrial Environmental Observatories in Germany , 2011 .