Physical Ecosystem Engineers as Agents of Biogeochemical Heterogeneity

By J. L. Gutiérrez, Clive G. Jones. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science

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In Ecology

1. Clive G. Jones
2. J. Wright
3. J. Crooks
4. J. E. Byers
5. K. Cuddington
6. E. Kristensen
7. C. Wilcox
8. Jeannine M. Lessmann

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. M. Leponce
2. E. Kristensen
3. Alan Hastings
4. Clive G. Jones
5. Patricia A. Fleming
6. Amy S. Prendergast
7. Giles Hardy
8. Michael Bretz

In Soil Science

1. E. Kristensen
2. Clive G. Jones
3. J. Wright

Citations in the corpus

• Contribution of cocoa plantations to the conservation of native ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with a special emphasis on the Atlantic Forest fauna of southern Bahia, Brazil (2007, background): “Among the main groups of physical ecosystem engineers (Gutiérrez and Jones 2006), ants are certainly not the most diverse animal group in the tropical landscape, but they are the most constant and individually abundant and have the greatest impact on the habitat structure and the other organisms tha”
• Fiddler crab burrowing affects growth and production of the white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa) in a restored Florida coastal marsh (2009, background): “Kristensen (2008) argued that Wddler crabs are ecosystem engineers in the overall ecology of mangrove marshes (see Jones et al. 1994; Gutiérrez and Jones 2006).”
• Is the loss of Australian digging mammals contributing to a deterioration in ecosystem function (2014, background): “Bioturbation therefore affects resource availability (nutrients, carbon, water, electron donors and acceptors) for microbes, or provides abiotic conditions (soil moisture, temperature, pH, redox potential) that affect rates of microbial processes (Gutiérrez & Jones 2006).”
• The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges (2006, background): “…if ecologists can understand how organisms modify these physical and chemical abiotic factors, we are quite likely to be able to predict effects of ecosystem engineering on biogeochemical processes (Caraco et al. 2006, Gutiérrez and Jones 2006) and species distributions (Wright and Jones 2004).”
• Ecosystem engineering in space and time. (2007, background): “As a consequence they often affect biogeochemical process rates and distributions (e.g. Gutiérrez and Jones 2006), and can play a major role in the input or export of materials from ecosystems (e.g. Gutiérrez et al. 2006) thereby having effects at larger spatial scales.”
• Mangrove crabs as ecosystem engineers; with emphasis on sediment processes (2008, background): “The physical transport will also potentially affect the state of substances by changing factors such as the redox conditions via removal of toxic metabolites and introduction of oxygen deep into sediments (process 5) (inspired by Gutiérrez and Jones, 2006). 32 E. Kristensen / Journal of Sea Research”