Reimagining Earth in the Earth System

作者：Gordon B. Bonan, Oliver Lucier, Deborah R. Coen, Adrianna Foster, J. K. Shuman, Marysa M. Laguë, Abigail L. S. Swann, Danica Lombardozzi, William R. Wieder, Kyla M. Dahlin, Adrian V. Rocha, Michael Sanclements · 发表于：Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1029/2023ms004017 · 被引用次数：31 · 研究领域：Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution、Global Energy and Sustainability Research、Scientific Research and Discoveries

Abstract Terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems regulate climate at local to global scales through exchanges of energy and matter with the atmosphere and assist with climate change mitigation through nature‐based climate solutions. Climate science is no longer a study of the physics of the atmosphere and oceans, but also the ecology of the biosphere. This is the promise of Earth system science: to transcend academic disciplines to enable study of the interacting physics, chemistry, and biology of the planet. However, long‐standing tension in protecting, restoring, and managing forest ecosystems to purposely improve climate evidences the difficulties of interdisciplinary science. For four centuries, forest management for climate betterment was argued, legislated, and ultimately dismissed, when nineteenth century atmospheric scientists narrowly defined climate science to the exclusion of ecology. Today's Earth system science, with its roots in global models of climate, unfolds in similar ways to the past. With Earth system models, geoscientists are again defining the ecology of the Earth system. Here we reframe Earth system science so that the biosphere and its ecology are equally integrated with the fluid Earth to enable Earth system prediction for planetary stewardship. Central to this is the need to overcome an intellectual heritage to the models that elevates geoscience and marginalizes ecology and local land knowledge. The call for kilometer‐scale atmospheric and ocea...