Abiotic, residual and functional components of landforms

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1744-1750

  Corenblit, Dov ^a,b   Steiger, Johannes ^c,d   Delmotte, Sébastien ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^d Laboratoire de geographie physique et environnementale Clermont Ferrand   (France)

^e Modelling and Analysis of Data in Environment   (France)

Author keywords

Evolutionary geomorphology; Function; Functional ecogeomorphology; Geomorphic engineer species; Landform; Niche construction

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY GEOMORPHOLOGY; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS; FUNCTIONAL ECOGEOMORPHOLOGY; FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT; GEOMORPHIC-ENGINEER SPECIES; NICHE CONSTRUCTION; PHYSICAL FORCE; THREE COMPONENT;

ECOLOGY; ENGINEERS; GEOMORPHOLOGY;

LANDFORMS;

BIOTIC FACTOR; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LANDFORM;

EID: 77958581211     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2064     Document Type: Article

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