Ecological Engineers: Southeastern Pocket Gophers Are One of Nature's Architects: WEC244/UW285, 4/2008

Gabriel J. Miller; Steve A. Johnson; Lora L. Smith

doi:10.32473/edis-uw285-2008

Vol. 2008 No. 4, Historical Fact Sheets

Vol. 2008 No. 4

Ecological Engineers: Southeastern Pocket Gophers Are One of Nature's Architects: WEC244/UW285, 4/2008

Historical Fact Sheets

https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-uw285-2008

Published 2008-05-19

Gabriel J. Miller⁺⁻
Steve A. Johnson⁺⁻
Lora L. Smith⁺⁻

Gabriel J. Miller

Steve A. Johnson

University of Florida

Lora L. Smith

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Miller, Gabriel J., Steve A. Johnson, and Lora L. Smith. 2008. “Ecological Engineers: Southeastern Pocket Gophers Are One of Nature’s Architects: WEC244 UW285, 4 2008”. EDIS 2008 (4). Gainesville, FL. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-uw285-2008.

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WEC-244, a 4-page illustrated fact sheet by Gabriel J. Miller, Steve A. Johnson, and Lora L. Smith, explains autogenic and allogenic environmental engineering, with brief discussions of live oak trees and beavers as examples, and describes the southeastern pocket gopher’s role in Florida ecosystems as an allogenic environmental engineer. Published by the UF Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, April 2008.

WEC244/UW285: Ecological Engineers: Southeastern Pocket Gophers Are One of Nature's Architects (ufl.edu)

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Mitsch, W. J. 1998. Ecological Engineering - the 7-year itch. Ecological Engineering 10:119-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0925-8574(98)00009-3

Reichman, O. J. and E. W. Seabloom. 2002. The role of pocket gophers as subterranean ecosystem engineers. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:44-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02329-1

Skelley, P. E. and R. D. Gordon. 2001. Scarab beetles from pocket gopher burrows in the southeastern United States (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Insecta Mundi 15:77-93.

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