Meanings
- uncountablebiologyThe mixing or disturbance of soil by living organisms, as opposed to disturbance of other media such as sediment or leaf litter.
The implications of the biopedturbation caused by sooty shearwater burrowing to the extent measured in this study may be profound for some ecosystem processes […]
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 4Synonyms: pedoturbation
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe mixing or disturbance of soil by living organisms, as opposed to disturbance of other media such as sediment or leaf litter.
Origin
- Latinturbātiō“disturbance; confusion”
- Ancient Greekπέδον“soil”
- Englishbiopedturbation
From bio- + Ancient Greek πέδον (pédon, “soil”) + Latin turbātiō (“disturbance; confusion”).
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