'One physical system': Tansley's ecosystem as Earth's critical zone

New Phytologist

Volumn 206, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 900-912

  Richter, Daniel de B ^a   Billings, Sharon A ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Biogeosciences; Ecohydrology; Ecosystem ecology; Ecosystem metabolism; Soil respiration; Weathering profile

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL RESPIRATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHERING PROFILE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; SOIL;

ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGY; HISTORY; METABOLISM; SOIL; TRENDS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH SCIENCES; ECOSYSTEM; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; SOIL;

EID: 84926431949     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13338     Document Type: Review

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