Background It is well established that the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems depends on
biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks occurring at the soil-plant-atmosphere (SPA) …

Forests are increasingly threatened by climate-change-fuelled cycles of drought, dieback
and wildfires. However, for reasons that remain incompletely understood, some forest stands …

Quantitative characterization of subsurface properties is critical for many environmental
applications and serves as the basis to simulate and better understand dynamic subsurface …

Lithium isotope ratios (δ7Li) of rivers are increasingly serving as a diagnostic of the balance
between chemical and physical weathering contributions to overall landscape denudation …

The structure of the critical zone (CZ) is a product of feedbacks among hydrologic, climatic,
biotic, and chemical processes. Past research within snow‐dominated systems has shown …

Geophysical methods have long been used in earth and environmental science for the
characterization of subsurface properties. While imaging the subsurface opens the “black …

Hydrologic modeling has been a useful approach for analyzing water partitioning in
catchment systems. It will play an essential role in studying the responses of watersheds …

The reaction mechanism of weathering of chlorite, an important rock-forming phyllosilicate,
is not well understood in natural settings. In this work we investigated the weathering of Fe …

In unglaciated terrain, the imprint of past glacial periods is difficult to discern. The
topographic signature of periglacial processes, such as solifluction lobes, may be erased or …

Two major barriers hinder the holistic understanding of subsurface critical zone (CZ)
evolution and its impacts:(a) an inability to measure, define, and share information and (b) a …