Introducing the Avon River Critical Zone Observatory—Part of the Australian Critical Zone Observatories Network
摘要
Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) are a global attempt to understand the function of the vertical ‘geo-bio-atmosphere boundary down to the bedrock’ critical zone (CZ) profile by characterising its physical, chemical and biological structure, learning how matter and energy are stored, transported and transformed within the CZ, and elucidating how this storage, movement and transformation contribute to the evolution of CZ structure.