Current developments in bioerosion

✍ Scribed by Leif Tapanila (auth.), Max Wisshak, Leif Tapanila (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 501
• Series: Erlangen Earth Conference Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A little more than forty years has past since the concept of bioerosion was formally recognised as the biological erosion of hard materials. In that time, it has become apparent from the literature that bioerosional processes affect a wide range of biological and geological systems that cross many disciplines among the sciences. This book is dedicated to crossing those traditional disciplinary boundaries to present a united and current perspective on the pattern and process of bioerosion.

The book opens with papers on the evolutionary significance of bioerosion, and subsequently ventures out to explore the remarkable diversity of bioerosive biota. From microboring bacteria to grazing echinoids, the studies use a variety of techniques ranging from field observations to sophisticated micro-computed tomography to investigate the ecological and environmental role of these organisms, including symbiotic interactions and alteration of non-carbonate substrates. The book concludes with a primer on the bioerosion bibliography website.

A diverse set of two dozen articles, including case studies and extensive reviews, highlight many aspects of the growing discipline of bioerosion research, from the early Palaeozoic to the present, from the Tropics to the Arctic, and from terrestrial environments to the deep-sea.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The endolithic guild: an ecological framework for residential cavities in hard substrates....Pages 3-20
Evolutionary implications of an exceptionally preserved Carboniferous microboring assemblage in the Buckhorn Asphalt lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA)....Pages 21-54
Enigmatic organisms preserved in early Ordovician macroborings, western Utah, USA....Pages 55-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The boring microflora in modern coral reef ecosystems: a review of its roles....Pages 67-94
The trace Rhopalia clavigera isp. n. reflects the development of its maker Eugomontia sacculata Kornmann, 1960....Pages 95-108
Colonisation and bioerosion of marine bivalve shells from the Baltic Sea by euendolithic cyanobacteria: an experimental study....Pages 109-122
The medium is the message: imaging a complex microboring ( Pyrodendrina cupra igen. n., isp. n.) from the early Paleozoic of Anticosti Island, Canada....Pages 123-145
Micro-computed tomography for studies on Entobia : transparent substrate versus modern technology....Pages 147-164
A history of sponge erosion: from past myths and hypotheses to recent approaches....Pages 165-202
Substratum microtexture affects the boring pattern of Cliona albimarginata (Clionaidae, Demospongiae)....Pages 203-211
Two new dwarf Entobia ichnospecies in a diverse aphotic ichnocoenosis (Pleistocene / Rhodes, Greece)....Pages 213-233
Borings, bodies and ghosts: spicules of the endolithic sponge Aka akis sp. nov. within the boring Entobia cretacea , Cretaceous, England....Pages 235-248
Role of polychaetes in bioerosion of coral substrates....Pages 249-264
Parapholas quadrizonata (Spengler, 1792), dominating dead-coral boring bivalve from the Maldives, Indian Ocean....Pages 265-278
Echinometrid sea urchins, their trophic styles and corresponding bioerosion....Pages 279-303
Front Matter....Pages 304-304
Boring a mobile domicile: an alternative to the conchicolous life habit....Pages 307-327
Biogeographical distribution of Hyrrokkin (Rosalinidae, Foraminifera) and its host-specific morphological and textural trace variability....Pages 329-360
Endolithic sponge versus terebratulid brachiopod, Pleistocene, Italy: accidental symbiosis, bioclaustration and deformity....Pages 361-368
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Micro-bioerosion in volcanic glass: extending the ichnofossil record to Archaean basaltic crust....Pages 371-396
Microbial bioerosion of bone – a review....Pages 397-413
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Xylic substrates at the fossilisation barrier: oak trunks ( Quercus sp .) in the Holocene sediments of the Labe River, Czech Republic....Pages 415-429
Trace fossil assemblages on Miocene rocky shores of southern Iberia....Pages 431-450
Role of bioerosion in taphonomy: effect of predatory drillholes on preservation of mollusc shells....Pages 451-470
Front Matter....Pages 471-471
An online bibliography of bioerosion references....Pages 473-478
Back Matter....Pages 479-499

✦ Subjects

Paleontology; Biogeosciences; Biochemistry, general