Biogeochemical Cycles : Ecological Drivers and Environmental Impact.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Biological Weathering -- Chapter 1 Biological Weathering in the Terrestrial System: An Evolutionary Perspective -- 1.1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.2. WEATHERING -- 1.3. THE EARLY ANOXIC EARTH -- 1.4. THE GREAT OXIDATION EVENT -- 1.5. MODERN-DAY OXIDATIVE WEATHERING -- 1.6. LIFE AND MATTER INTERACTIONS ACROSS SCALES -- 1.7. FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 Plants as Drivers of Rock Weathering -- 2.1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.2. MECHANISMS OF WEATHERING BY PLANTS -- 2.3. EXPERIMENTAL AND FIELD EVIDENCE OF BIOLOGICAL WEATHERING BY PLANTS AND SYMBIOTIC FUNGI -- 2.4. CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS ON PLANT WEATHERING AND CARBON FLUXES -- 2.5. SUMMARY AND FUTURE OUTLOOK/KNOWLEDGE GAPS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Microbial Weathering of Minerals and Rocks in Natural Environments -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. CONCEPTS IN MICROBIAL WEATHERING STUDIES -- 3.3. MECHANISMS OF MINERAL AND ROCK WEATHERING -- 3.4. TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGY IN MICROBIAL WEATHERING STUDIES -- 3.5. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF WEATHERING ENVIRONMENTS -- 3.6. BIOSIGNATURES OF MICROBIAL MINERAL AND ROCK WEATHERING -- 3.7. SHAPING LANDSCAPES-MICROBIAL BIOGEOMORPHOLOGY -- 3.8. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 Micro- and Nanoscale Techniques to Explore Bacteria and Fungi Interactions with Silicate Minerals -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION -- 4.2. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY -- 4.3. HELIUM ION MICROSCOPY -- 4.4. ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY -- 4.5. X-RAY-BASED SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSIS -- 4.6. SUMMARY AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 Modeling Microbial Dynamics and Heterotrophic Soil Respiration: Effect of Climate Change -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION.

5.2. FROM FIRST-ORDER KINETICS TO FOUR-POOL CDMZ SOIL MICROBIAL MODELS -- 5.3. INCORPORATING CLIMATE PARAMETERS -- 5.4. WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM CDMZ MODELS? -- 5.5. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES -- 5.6. SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part II Elemental Cycles -- Chapter 6 Critical Zone Biogeochemistry: Linking Structure and Function -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS CRITICAL ZONE BIOGEOCHEMISTRY? -- 6.2. BIOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL PROCESS COUPLING ACROSS THE CRITICAL ZONE -- 6.3. RESOLVING CRITICAL ZONE STRUCTURE -- 6.4. PORE-SCALE PROCESSES -- 6.5. CHALLENGES IN UPSCALING FROM PORE TO CATCHMENT -- 6.6. FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 Tracking the Fate of Plagioclase Weathering Products: Pedogenic and Human Influences -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION -- 7.2. METHODS -- 7.3. RESULTS -- 7.4. DISCUSSION -- 7.5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Small Catchment Scale Molybdenum Isotope Balance and its Implications for Global Molybdenum Isotope Cycling -- 8.1. INTRODUCTION -- 8.2. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION AT THE PLOT SCALE -- 8.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION AT THE CATCHMENT SCALE -- 8.4. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Trace Metal Legacy in Mountain Environments: A View from the Pyrenees Mountains -- 9.1. METAL LEGACY IN MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS -- 9.2. LEGACY OF PB IN EUROPEAN MOUNTAINS -- 9.3. ANCIENT METAL POLLUTION IN CENTRAL PYRENEES: THE BASSIÈS CASE STUDY -- 9.4. FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN PHTE GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE MOUNTAIN CRITICAL ZONE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 Poised to Hindcast and Earthcast the Effect of Climate on the Critical Zone: Shale Hills as a Model -- 10.1. HINDCASTING AND EARTHCASTING -- 10.2. ADVANCES IN HINDCASTING AND EARTHCASTING -- 10.3. USING ASPECT TO INFORM FUTURE EARTHCASTS SOLUTE FLUXES FROM SHALE: SSHCZO -- 10.4. OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- 10.5. CONCLUSION.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part III Frontier and Managed Ecosystems -- Chapter 11 Importance of the Collection of Abundant Ground-Truth Data for Accurate Detection of Spatial and Temporal Variability of Vegetation by Satellite Remote Sensing -- 11.1. INTRODUCTION -- 11.2. PLANT PHENOLOGY -- 11.3. LAND-USE AND LAND-COVER CHANGES -- 11.4. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 Biogeochemical Cycling of Redox-Sensitive Elements in Permafrost-Affected Ecosystems -- 12.1. CLIMATE-INDUCED PERTURBATIONS TO PERMAFROST ECOSYSTEMS -- 12.2. BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING OF REDOX‐SENSITIVE ELEMENTS -- 12.3. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 Anthropogenic Interactions with Rock Varnish -- 13.1. INTRODUCTION -- 13.2. LANDSCAPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF ROCK VARNISH -- 13.3. PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOGENIC INTERACTIONS -- 13.4. HISTORIC BIOGEOCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS WITH ROCK VARNISH -- 13.5. SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14 Cycling of Natural Sources of Phosphorus and Potassium for Environmental Sustainability -- 14.1. INTRODUCTION -- 14.2. ORGANIC PRODUCTION SYSTEM -- 14.3. CERTIFICATION AND REGULATIONS -- 14.4. PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM CYCLE IN ORGANIC SYSTEMS -- 14.5. ORGANIC AND NATURAL SOURCES -- 14.6. RECYCLING THROUGH BIOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS -- 14.7. BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES -- 14.8. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY -- 14.9. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15 Ecological Drivers and Environmental Impacts of Biogeochemical Cycles: Challenges and Opportunities -- 15.1. INTRODUCTION -- 15.2. BIOLOGICAL WEATHERING -- 15.3. ELEMENTAL CYCLES -- 15.4. FRONTIER AND MANAGED ECOSYSTEMS -- 15.5. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES -- REFERENCES -- Index -- EULA.

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