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A planetary boundary for green water

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NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
卷 3, 期 6, 页码 380-392

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DOI: 10.1038/s43017-022-00287-8

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  1. European Research Council through the 'Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene' project [ERC-2016-ADG 743080]
  2. Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [016.Veni.181.015]
  3. European Research Council under the European Union [819202]
  4. European Research Council (ERC) [819202] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)

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This Perspective proposes the addition of a green water planetary boundary based on root-zone soil moisture and demonstrates that widespread green water modifications now present increasing risks to Earth system resilience.
The planetary boundaries framework outlines a safe operating space for humanity according to key Earth system dynamics. This Perspective proposes the addition of a green water planetary boundary based on root-zone soil moisture and demonstrates that widespread green water modifications now present increasing risks to Earth system resilience. Green water - terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture - is fundamental to Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental to planetary scales. However, green water lacks explicit consideration in the existing planetary boundaries framework that demarcates a global safe operating space for humanity. In this Perspective, we propose a green water planetary boundary and estimate its current status. The green water planetary boundary can be represented by the percentage of ice-free land area on which root-zone soil moisture deviates from Holocene variability for any month of the year. Provisional estimates of departures from Holocene-like conditions, alongside evidence of widespread deterioration in Earth system functioning, indicate that the green water planetary boundary is already transgressed. Moving forward, research needs to address and account for the role of root-zone soil moisture for Earth system resilience in view of ecohydrological, hydroclimatic and sociohydrological interactions.

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