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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Biological Weathering -- Chapter 1 Biological Weathering in the Terrestrial System: An Evolutionary Perspective -- 1.1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.2. WEATHERING -- 1.3. THE EARLY ANOXIC EARTH -- 1.4. THE GREAT OXIDATION EVENT -- 1.5. MODERN-DAY OXIDATIVE WEATHERING -- 1.6. LIFE AND MATTER INTERACTIONS ACROSS SCALES -- 1.7. FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 Plants as Drivers of Rock Weathering -- 2.1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.2. MECHANISMS OF WEATHERING BY PLANTS

2.3. EXPERIMENTAL AND FIELD EVIDENCE OF BIOLOGICAL WEATHERING BY PLANTS AND SYMBIOTIC FUNGI -- 2.4. CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS ON PLANT WEATHERING AND CARBON FLUXES -- 2.5. SUMMARY AND FUTURE OUTLOOK/KNOWLEDGE GAPS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Microbial Weathering of Minerals and Rocks in Natural Environments -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. CONCEPTS IN MICROBIAL WEATHERING STUDIES -- 3.3. MECHANISMS OF MINERAL AND ROCK WEATHERING -- 3.4. TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGY IN MICROBIAL WEATHERING STUDIES -- 3.5. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF WEATHERING ENVIRONMENTS

3.6. BIOSIGNATURES OF MICROBIAL MINERAL AND ROCK WEATHERING -- 3.7. SHAPING LANDSCAPES-MICROBIAL BIOGEOMORPHOLOGY -- 3.8. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 Micro- and Nanoscale Techniques to Explore Bacteria and Fungi Interactions with Silicate Minerals -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION -- 4.2. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY -- 4.3. HELIUM ION MICROSCOPY -- 4.4. ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY -- 4.5. X-RAY-BASED SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSIS -- 4.6. SUMMARY AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES

Chapter 5 Modeling Microbial Dynamics and Heterotrophic Soil Respiration: Effect of Climate Change -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. FROM FIRST-ORDER KINETICS TO FOUR-POOL CDMZ SOIL MICROBIAL MODELS -- 5.3. INCORPORATING CLIMATE PARAMETERS -- 5.4. WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM CDMZ MODELS? -- 5.5. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES -- 5.6. SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part II Elemental Cycles -- Chapter 6 Critical Zone Biogeochemistry: Linking Structure and Function -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS CRITICAL ZONE BIOGEOCHEMISTRY? -- 6.2. BIOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL PROCESS COUPLING ACROSS THE CRITICAL ZONE

6.3. RESOLVING CRITICAL ZONE STRUCTURE -- 6.4. PORE-SCALE PROCESSES -- 6.5. CHALLENGES IN UPSCALING FROM PORE TO CATCHMENT -- 6.6. FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 Tracking the Fate of Plagioclase Weathering Products: Pedogenic and Human Influences -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION -- 7.2. METHODS -- 7.3. RESULTS -- 7.4. DISCUSSION -- 7.5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Small Catchment Scale Molybdenum Isotope Balance and its Implications for Global Molybdenum Isotope Cycling -- 8.1. INTRODUCTION -- 8.2. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION AT THE PLOT SCALE

8.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION AT THE CATCHMENT SCALE

A collection of the latest information on the techniques and methods currently used in this field, focusing on biological and/or ecological effects of biogeochemical elemental cycles including carbon, nitrogen, major and trace elements, chemical weathering on multiple scales of nanometers to watersheds, and advances in technology of studying these processes. Volume highlights include: remote sensing and modeling techniques used to quantify changes in the ecosystem/s productivity, and microscopic techniques to estimate the extent of weathering; novel isotopic techniques to assess changes in trace elemental cycles as influenced by the changing climate, and plant-mediated effect of climate change on major elemental cycles; Impact of climate change and other anthropogenic influences in agricultural and extreme (frontier) environments.