biopedturbation

English

Etymology

bio- +‎ Ancient Greek πέδον (pédon, “soil”) + Latin turbātiō (“disturbance; confusion”)

Noun

biopedturbation (uncountable)

  1. (geology, ecology) The mixing or disturbance of soil by living organisms, as opposed to disturbance of other media such as sediment or leaf litter.
    • 2006, Walter G. Whitford; Fenton R. Kay, “Biopedturbation by an island ecosystem engineer: Burrowing volumes and litter deposition by sooty shearwaters”, in New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 33, number 4:
      The implications of the biopedturbation caused by sooty shearwater burrowing to the extent measured in this study may be profound for some ecosystem processes […]

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Hyponyms
  • anthropedturbation
  • faunalpedturbation
  • floralpedturbation
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