We don’t know how much wood a woodchuck would chuck if he could chuck wood, but we know how much sediment he moves per year…
Biogeomorphology, also referred as ecogeomorphology or sometimes as zoogeomorphology,
is the study of the links between ecology and geomorphology, or in
simple terms between life-forms and landforms. Such interactions range
from simple tracks left by an organism in the landscape to the complex
cycles of energy and matter transfer (like for the element carbon)
between the biosphere and the lithosphere.
The role of animals in the evolution of
a landscape is still poorly studied, but one of the most interesting
processes modifying a landscape involves digging animals. Read On...
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