Contribution to new textbook on the critical zone

Principles and Dynamics of the Critical ZoneA new textbook called Principles and Dynamics of the Critical Zone was just published.  I co-authored a chapter of the book on Ecohydrology in the Critical Zone with Georgianne Moore, Peter Troch and Greg Barron-Gafford.  Here is the publisher’s description of the book:

Principles and Dynamics of the Critical Zone is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses and an essential tool for researchers developing cutting-edge proposals. It provides a process-based description of the Critical Zone, a place that The National Research Council (2001) defines as the “heterogeneous, near surface environment in which complex interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms regulate the natural habitat and determine the availability of life-sustaining resources.”

This text provides a summary of Critical Zone research and outcomes from the NSF funded Critical Zone Observatories, providing a process-based description of the Critical Zone in a wide range of environments with a specific focus on the important linkages that exist amongst the processes in each zone.

This book will be useful to all scientists and students conducting research on the Critical Zone within and outside the Critical Zone Observatory Network, as well as scientists and students in the geosciences – atmosphere, geomorphology, geology and pedology.

Moore, G.W., McGuire, K.J., Troch, P.A., Barron-Gafford, G. 2015. Chapter 8. Ecohydrology and the critical zone: processes and patterns across scales. In: Giardino, J. and Houser, C. (Eds.), Principles and Dynamics of the Critical Zone. Developments in Earth Surface Processes, Volume 19, pp. 239-266, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63369-9.00008-2.