The Environmental Impact of Burrowing Animals and Animal Burrows

ISBN-13: 9780198546801 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 368 str.

Peter S. and Azra Meadows

Recenzje

'The scale and importance of animal burrowing are made clearer than ever before by the contributors to this symposium.' Ethology Ecology & Evolution 5: 1993

Spis treści

Burrows and burrowing animals: an overview; Ant colonies and environmental disturbance; Environmental effects of meiofaunal burrowing; Burrow-nesting among birds and its influence on soil fertility and stability; Effects of burrowing meiofauna on organic matter decomposition in coastal marine sediments; Environmental impact of badgers (Meles meles) and their setts; Interactions in burrowing communities and their effects on the structure of marine benthic systems; Ground beetles and the soil: their adaptations and environmental effects; Burrows and burrowing behaviour of fish; Geotechnical and geochemical implications of bioturbation in marine sedimentary ecosystems; Mima-like mounds (heuweltjies) of South Africa; Availability of burrows in relation to dispersal in the wild rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus; Biogenic habitat modification in marine sediments; The burrowing nematode Radopholus similis of banana and its management in Kerala; Environmental impact of wood-borers in mangrove swamps; Environmental impact of subterranean mole rats (Spalax ehrenbergi) and their burrows; Intertidal invaders: burrow design in marine beetles.