Embracing the dynamic nature of soil structure: A paradigm illuminating the role of life in critical zones of the Anthropocene

PL Sullivan, SA Billings, D Hirmas, L Li, X Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soils form the skin of the Earth's surface, regulating water and biogeochemical cycles and
generating production of food, timber, and textiles around the world. Changes in soil and its …

Soil functions: connecting earth's critical zone

SA Banwart, NP Nikolaidis, YG Zhu… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Soil is the central interface of Earth's critical zone—the planetary surface layer extending
from unaltered bedrock to the vegetation canopy—and is under intense pressure from …

Simulating carbon capture by enhanced weathering with croplands: an overview of key processes highlighting areas of future model development

LL Taylor, DJ Beerling, S Quegan… - Biology …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Enhanced weathering (EW) aims to amplify a natural sink for CO2 by incorporating
powdered silicate rock with high reactive surface area into agricultural soils. The goal is to …

The meanings of the Critical Zone

RM Lee, B Shoshitaishvili, RL Wood, J Bekker… - Anthropocene, 2023 - Elsevier
The original meaning of the Critical Zone (CZ) was spatial and pointed to one physical
referent: the terrestrial surface of the entire Earth. As usage increased among researchers in …

Valuation of soil ecosystem services

JÖG Jónsson, B Davíðsdóttir, NP Nikolaidis - Advances in Agronomy, 2017 - Elsevier
Soil natural capital and soil ecosystem services (ES) are under increasing pressure because
of human activities. Soils provide multiple benefits to humans, and the role of soil in Earth's …

Monitoring and modeling the soil‐plant system toward understanding soil health

Y Zeng, A Verhoef, H Vereecken… - Reviews of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The soil health assessment has evolved from focusing primarily on agricultural productivity
to an integrated evaluation of soil biota and biotic processes that impact soil properties …

Optimizing the water-ecosystem-food nexus using nature-based solutions at the basin scale

A Maragkaki, EA Koukianaki, MA Lilli, D Efstathiou… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The water ecosystem food (WEF) nexus duly acknowledges the complex interdependencies
among water, ecosystems, and food production, underscoring nature based solutions (NBS) …

Assessing the climate regulation potential of agricultural soils using a decision support tool adapted to stakeholders' needs and possibilities

M Van de Broek, CB Henriksen, BB Ghaley… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Soils perform many functions that are vital to societies, among which their capability to
regulate global climate has received much attention over the past decades. An assessment …

Tools for sustainable soil management: soil ecosystem services, EROI and economic analysis

JÖG Jónsson, B Davíðsdóttir, NP Nikolaidis… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Soils are an important form of natural capital that provide multiple benefits to humans
(Banwart et al., 2012; Dominati et al., 2010; Jonsson and Davidsdottir, 2016) and are, along …

Soil functions in Earth's critical zone: key results and conclusions

SA Banwart, SM Bernasconi, WEH Blum… - Advances in …, 2017 - Elsevier
This chapter summarizes the methods, results, and conclusions of a 5-year research project
(SoilTrEC: Soil Transformations in European Catchments) on experimentation, process …