The Role of Plants in Controlling Rates and Products of Weathering: Importance of Biological Pumping

By Y. Lucas. 2001

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Biological weathering in soil: the role of symbiotic root-associated fungi biosensing minerals and directing photosynthate-energy into grain-scale mineral weathering (2008, background): “Although plants are the primary drivers of biotic weathering activities (Lucas, 2001), in unsaturated soil environments plant roots normally form symbiotic mycorrhizal associations with fungi and it is these that are often the main agents of weathering (Landeweert et al.”
Coupling between biota and earth materials in the critical zone (2007, background): “– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince processes (Lucas 2001; Jobbágy and Jackson 2004).”
Feedbacks between geomorphology and biota controlling Earth surface processes and landforms: A review of foundation concepts and current understandings (2011, background): “It has been shown that micro-, meso- and macro-organisms and plants modify fundamental properties of regolith and creep flux rate, thus controlling fundamental geologic, geomorphologic and atmospheric processes at very large spatiotemporal scales (e.g., Boyle and Voigt, 1973; Schwartzman and Volk, 1”