Biogeomorphology

Biogeomorphology is the scientific study of interactions and feedbacks between the living and nonliving parts of the landscape. Straddling the disciplines of geomorphology and ecology, biogeomorphological research is inherently interdisciplinary. Micro‐organisms, plants, and animals contribute to the development of landforms and landscapes in many different ways, both actively and passively, through processes of bioconstruction, bioweathering, bioerosion, and bioprotection. Equally, geomorphological processes create and alter habitat, and influence environmental conditions for organisms. As an overarching field of environmental study, the scope and diversity of biogeomorphological research is immense, ranging from the scale of interactions between individual mineral grains and micro‐organisms up to global biogeochemical cycling and climate change over geological time. Not only of academic interest, biogeomorphology is proving useful to many applied fields, including environmental management, biodiversity conservation, and environmental resilience.

Biodiversity · Biogeochemical cycle · Biology · Cartography · Climate change · Earth science · Environmental change · Environmental resource management · Geography · Habitat · Landform · Scope (computer science) · Aeolian processes and effects · Ecology · Environmental Science · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Soil erosion and sediment transport