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Earth-Science Reviews 106, 3-4 (2011) 307-331
Feedbacks between geomorphology and biota controlling Earth surface processes and landforms: A review of foundation concepts and current understandings
Dov Corenblit 1, 2, Andreas C.W. Baas 3, Gudrun Bornette 4, José Darrozes 2, Sébastien Delmotte 5, Robert A. Francis 3, Angela M. Gurnell 6, Frédéric Julien 7, R.J. Naiman 8, Johannes Steiger 9
(2011)

This review article presents recent advances in the field of biogeomorphology related to the reciprocal coupling between Earth surface processes and landforms, and ecological and evolutionary processes. The aim is to present to the Earth Science community ecological and evolutionary concepts and associated recent conceptual developments for linking geomorphology and biota. The novelty of the proposed perspective is that (1) in the presence of geomorphologic-engineer species, which modify sediment and landform dynamics, natural selection operating at the scale of organisms may have consequences for the physical components of ecosystems, and particularly Earth surface processes and landforms; and (2) in return, these modifications of geomorphologic processes and landforms often feed back to the ecological characteristics of the ecosystem (structure and function) and thus to biological characteristics of engineer species and/or other species (adaptation and speciation). The main foundation concepts from ecology and evolutionary biology which have led only recently to an improved conception of landform dynamics in geomorphology are reviewed and discussed. The biogeomorphologic macroevolutionary insights proposed explicitly integrate geomorphologic niche-dimensions and processes within an ecosystem framework and reflect current theories of eco- evolutionary and ecological processes. Collectively, these lead to the definition of an integrated model describing the overall functioning of biogeomorphologic systems over ecological and evolutionary timescales.
1 :  Pole de recherche pour l'organisation et la diffusion de l'information géographique (PRODIG)
CNRS : UMR8586 – Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne – Université Paris IV - Paris Sorbonne – Université Paris VII - Paris Diderot – Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes – Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR215
2 :  Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET)
CNRS : UMR5563 – Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR239 – Université Paul Sabatier [UPS] - Toulouse III – Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
3 :  KING'S COLLEGE LONDON Department of Geography
King's College London
4 :  Laboratoire d'Écologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés (LEHNA)
CNRS : UMR5023 – École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État [ENTPE] – ISARA-Lyon – Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I
5 :  MAD-Environnement
MAD-Environnement
6 :  Queen Mary, University of London - QMUL (Londres, Angleterre)
Queen Mary, University of London - QMUL (Londres, Angleterre)
7 :  Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (EcoLab)
PRES Université de Toulouse – Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT – Université Paul Sabatier [UPS] - Toulouse III – Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées – CNRS : UMR5245
8 :  School of Aquatic Fishery Sciences
University of Washington
9 :  Laboratoire de Géographie physique et environnementale (GEOLAB)
CNRS : UMR6042 – Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II – Université de Limoges – Institut Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société
Sciences de l'environnement/Biodiversité et Ecologie
biogeomorphologic feedback – landforms – biogeomorphologic succession  – ecosystem engineers – niche construction – eco-evolutionary dynamics