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Zoogeomorphology: Animals as Geomorphic Agents

By David R. Butler

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
9780521039321, 9780511529900, 0521433436, 0521039320, 0511529902, 9780521433433
LCC
QH542.5 .B88 1995
Open Library ID
OL1118501M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19539024 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
240\239
Topic
Biology Zoology
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Zoogeomorphology is the first and only book of its kind to examine the role animals play in sculpting the Earth's surface, thus integrating the ideas and literature from the fields of geomorphology and wildlife ecology. Dr. Butler describes how animals of all kinds--from small insects to large mammals such as elephants--can act as agents of erosion, transportation, and deposition of sediment. He discusses specific processes associated with the diversity of animal influences in geomorphology: burrowing and denning, nesting, lithophagy and geophagy, wallowing and trampling, food caching, excavating for food, and dam building by beavers.

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