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Armadillos as taphonomic agents of archaeological sites in the Pampas Region, Argentina
(Elsevier, 2020-06)
Armadillos constitute a recurrent taphonomic agent in the disturbance of archaeological sites in the Pampas region of Argentina. Their burrows generate vertical and horizontal movement of archeological and modern materials, ...
Comparative Morphometrics in Leptodactyline Frogs (Anura, Leptodactylidae, Leptodactylinae): Does Burrowing Behavior Relate to Sexual Dimorphism?
(Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2016-12)
Fossorial habits occur in many animal lineages and usually involve both morphological and physiological adaptations that may evolve independently. Burrowing behavior in some species of the anuran subfamily Leptodactylinae ...
Extended amplification of acoustic signals by amphibian burrows
(2016)
Animals relying on acoustic signals for communication must cope with the constraints imposed by the environment for sound propagation. A resource to improve signal broadcast is the use of structures that favor the emission ...
Crab Burrowing Limits Surface Litter Accumulation in a Temperate Salt Marsh: Implications for Ecosystem Functioning and Connectivity
(Springer, 2018-08)
Burial of aboveground plant litter by animals reduces the amount available for surface transport and places it into a different environment, affecting decomposition rates and fluxes of organic matter to adjacent ecosystems. ...
A matter of choice: Substrate preference by burrow-digging males of a sand-dwelling spider
(Springer Tokyo, 2018-09)
Animals may build refuges to avoid predation, to communicate, to mate, and to protect against extreme temperatures, among other factors. Allocosa senex is a wolf spider that constructs burrows in the coastal sand dunes of ...
Amplification and spectral shifts of vocalizations inside burrows of the frog Eupsophus calcaratus (Leptodactylidae)
(2004)
A variety of animals that communicate by sound emit signals from sites favoring their propagation, thereby increasing the range over which these sounds convey information. A different significance of calling sites has been ...
Area-Wide Prediction of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Hole Density and Depth across a Climate Gradient in Chile Based on UAV and Machine Learning
(MDPI, 2021)
Burrowing animals are important ecosystem engineers affecting soil properties, as their burrowing activity leads to the redistribution of nutrients and soil carbon sequestration. The magnitude of these effects depends on ...
A granulometria explica a seleção de habitat de caranguejos chama-marés? um estudo em Leptuca Uruguayensis
(Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), 2017-01-19)
As características granulométricas do sedimento têm sido relatadas como um dos principais fatores determinantes na distribuição dos caranguejos nos manguezais. Os caranguejos chama-marés são importantes representantes por ...
Burrow ornamentation in the fiddler crab (Uca leptodactyla): female mate choice and male–male competition
(2016-09-02)
Non-biological ornamentation is found in the nests and burrows of different kinds of animals. We evaluated here whether sand hoods constructed by male fiddler crabs (Uca leptodactyla) are one of the signals used by males ...
Burrow ventilation and associated porewater irrigation by the polychaete Marenzelleria viridis
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2011)
Burrow ventilation of benthic infauna generates water currents that irrigate the interstices of the sediments surrounding the burrow walls. Such activities have associated effects on biogeochemical processes affecting ...