Elephants (and extinct relatives) as earth-movers and ecosystem engineers

Geomorphology

Volumn 157-158, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-107

  Haynes, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem engineering; Landscape sculpting; Proboscideans

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ELEPHANT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TRAMPLING;

ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA;

EID: 84860918309     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.04.045     Document Type: Article

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