The Dual Role of Vegetation as a Constraint on Mass and Energy Flux into the Critical Zone and as an Emergent Property of Geophysical Critical Zone Structure

Paul D Brooks, University of Utah, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Tyson Lee Swetnam, University of Arizona, CyVerse, Tucson, United States, Holly R Barnard, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Kamini Singha, Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program; School of Earth, Space and Planets, Golden, United States, Adrian Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States and Marcy E Litvak, University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, Albuquerque, United States