The current and future role of biota in soil-landscape evolution models

Biota are major drivers of geomorphological development. Vegetation and soil fauna act as ecosystem engineers, changing the environment through physical structures individual activities such litter layering, tree uprooting, animal mounding. Furthermore, varying quality triggering different degrees bioturbation, they jointly drive landscape development heterogeneously in space over time. Soil-landscape evolution models succeed incorporating with evolution. However, roles biota biotic interactions these still underexposed. We cannot fully understand changes environmental soil-landscape systems without a proper appreciation processes. In this contribution, we first review role pedological Then compare coverage processes outline current models. Finally, define five levels model complexity that allow increased detail biota-soil-landscape interactions. The results show how vegetation characteristics bioturbation simplified compared processes, impact quantity between animals not taken into consideration at all. As understanding complex soil-landscape-biota system is fundamental exploring coevolution landscape, it deserves more efforts to develop does justice manifold impacts biota.