Macrobiological processes

For discussion of the ecology of wetland soils and water see Mitsch and Gosselink (2000) for natural wetlands, Roger (1996) for wetland riceflelds, and Catling (1992) for the additional niceties of deepwater riceflelds. 

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This chapter describes the important micro- and macrobiological processes in submerged soil and the overlying floodwater. Processes in plants and their rhizo-spheres are discussed in Chapter 6. The microbiological processes are discussed first and then the additional complexities caused by macrobiological processes and the particular ecology of the floodwater-soil system. 

In principle, bioturbation as a macrobiological process should not be described in terms of easily manageable model concepts as can be done for molecular diffusion. Only if it is assured that the expansion of a given volume under study is large enough, and/or provided that the time-span necessary to make the... 

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