Bioturbation is defined as the reworking of soils and sediments by animals or plants. It includes burrowing, ingestion, and defecation of sediment grains...

product of organic activity and the area where bioturbation is a dominant process. Soil bioturbation consists predominantly of three subsets: faunalturbation...

the signs of bioturbation, especially at shallower depths. Arthropods, in particular are important to the geologic record of bioturbation of Eolian sediments...

place at shallow depths (a few tens of meters) and is characterized by bioturbation and mineralogical changes in the sediments, with only slight compaction...

water and drown. Mayflies are involved in both primary production and bioturbation. A study in laboratory simulated streams revealed that the mayfly genus...

reasons include increased predation, competition with bivalves, enhanced bioturbation or increased grazing pressure. Like the preceding Triassic, bryozoan...

echinoid ranging the western Atlantic ocean. They are best known for their bioturbation in the sediment, relationship with crabs, and their widespread distribution...

Qiangtang Basin of Tibet, enormous seasonal variation in sedimentation, bioturbation, and ichnofossil deposition recorded in sedimentary facies in the Sydney...

lamination, are often destroyed by the burrowing activities of organisms (bioturbation). Fine lamination is characteristic of limestone formed in playa lakes...

soils they physically displace materials, an ecological process called bioturbation. This aerates soils and stimulates heterotrophic growth and production...