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Animals as geomorphic agents have primarily been considered curiosities in the literature of geomorphology, whose spatial and quantitative influences have been seen as both limited and minor. Zoogeomorphology: Animals as Geomorphic Agents, which is wholly devoted to this topic, examines the distinct geomorphic influences of invertebrates, ectothermic vertebrates, birds and mammals, and demonstrates the importance of animals as landscape sculptors. Specific processes associated with the diversity of animal influences in geomorphology are examined, including burrowing and denning, nesting, lithophagy and geophagy, wallowing and trampling, food caching, excavating for food, and dam building by beavers. Particular emphasis is placed on terrestrial animals, although aquatic animals are also discussed where appropriate.
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Paleontology, Stratigraphic. --- Micropaleontology. --- Biogeomorphology.
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Biogéomorphologie --- Animali --- Comportamento. --- Ecologia. --- Biogéomorphologie --- Biogeomorphology --- Biogeography --- Geomorphology
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aquatic biodiversity --- Biogeomorphology --- Dispersal --- Fishes --- freshwater biodiversity --- Freshwater fishes --- Geographical distribution --- Classification --- Amazon River Region
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"This volume draws together interdisciplinary studies that highlight key insights important to support heterogeneity, biodiversity, and resilience in fluvial ecosystems. The syntheses point to greater emphasis on integrated approaches to advance strategies for ecosystem management toward conservation, restoration, and sustainable practices, in particular to accommodate multiple possible postfire disturbance and recovery trajectories"--
Fire ecology --- Fluvial geomorphology --- Post-fire forest management --- Biogeomorphology --- Restoration ecology
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If aliens came to Earth 100 million years in the future, what traces would they find of long-extinct humanity's brief reign on the planet? This thought-provoking book looks at what our species will leave behind, buried deep in the rock strata, and provides us with a warning of our devastating environmental impact.
Biogeomorphology. --- Historical geology. --- Paleoanthropology. --- Extinction (Biology) --- Nature --- Biogéomorphologie --- Geologie historique --- Paléoanthropologie --- Extinction (Biologie) --- Homme --- Effect of human beings on. --- Influence sur la nature
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Tectonic plates are constantly moving, either crashing into one another creating a mosaic of mountains and shallow seas, or tearing apart and isolating large swathes of land. In both cases plate tectonics separates populations leading to the evolution of biota. Tectonics is also responsible for the destruction life, for instance when large coral reefs or shallow seas are compressed to form mountain peaks. Could recent research into these processes provide enough evidence to show that tectonics may be the ultimate driver of life on Earth? Our book delves into the current research in tectonics, particularly neotectonics, and its impact on rapid changes on biogeographical classification, also known as bioregionalisation. We also introduce a new term biotectonics that studies the impact of tectonics on biogeoregionalisation. The question we ask is how tectonics directly influences the distribution of biota in four case studies: the Mesozic and early Palaeogene Australides, which spans the Proto-Pacific coast of the South America, Antaractica and Australiasia; and the Neogene of Australia. To conclude we examine the role of neotectonics on tranistion zones and the Amazon Basin and make a case for biotectonic extinction. .
Ecology . --- Evolutionary biology. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Ecology. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Biogeomorphology. --- Biogeography --- Geomorphology
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