Critical Zone Science (CZS) represents a powerful confluence of research agendas, tools, and techniques for examining the complex interactions between biotic and abiotic factors located at the interface of the Earth’s surface and shallow subsurface. Earth’s Critical Zone houses and sustains terrestrial life, and its interacting subsystems drive macroecological patterns and processes at a variety of spatial scales. Despite the analytical power of CZS to understand and characterize complicated rate-dependent processes, CZS has done less to capture the effects of disturbance and anthropogenic influences on Critical Zone processes, although some Critical Zone Observatories focus on disturbance and regeneration. Methodological approaches from biogeography and ecology show promise for providing Critical Zone researchers with tools for incorporating the effects of ecological and anthropogenic disturbance into fine-grained studies of important Earth processes. Similarly, mechanistic insights from CZS can inform biogeographical and ecological interpretations of pattern and process that operate over extensive spatial and temporal scales. In this paper, we illustrate the potential for productive nexus opportunities between CZS, biogeography, and ecology through use of an integrated model of energy and mass flow through various subsystems of the Earth’s Critical Zone. As human-induced effects on biotic and abiotic components of global ecosystems accelerate in the Anthropocene, we argue that the long temporal and broad spatial scales traditionally studied in biogeography can be constructively combined with the quantifiable processes of energy and mass transfer through the Critical Zone to answer pressing questions about future trajectories of land cover change, post-disturbance recovery, climate change impacts, and urban hydrology and ecology.

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人类世的临界区科学：生物地理学和生态理论与实践推动地球科学整合的机会

临界区科学 (CZS) 代表了研究议程、工具和技术的强大融合，用于检查位于地球表面和浅层地下界面的生物和非生物因素之间的复杂相互作用。地球的临界区容纳并维持陆地生命，其相互作用的子系统在各种空间尺度上驱动宏观生态模式和过程。尽管 CZS 具有理解和表征复杂的速率相关过程的分析能力，但 CZS 在捕捉扰动和人为影响对临界区过程的影响方面做得很少，尽管一些临界区天文台专注于扰动和再生。生物地理学和生态学的方法论方法有望为临界区研究人员提供工具，将生态和人为干扰的影响纳入重要地球过程的细粒度研究。同样，来自 CZS 的机械见解可以为在广泛的空间和时间尺度上运行的模式和过程的生物地理和生态解释提供信息。在本文中，我们通过使用通过地球临界区各个子系统的能量和质量流的集成模型，说明了 CZS、生物地理学和生态学之间的生产联系机会的潜力。随着人类对全球生态系统的生物和非生物成分的影响在人类世加速，