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Microtopography

Cf. Moss Project, Near Surface Ecologies

Microtopography is important for small habitat structures.

Reserach in this area covers natural and artificial surfaces.

Types and terms:

  • geomorphometry
  • soil surface microtopography
  • leaf surface microtopography 1
  • phyllosphere
  • surface metrology
  • surface texture
  • microform, microform classification maps
  • anisotropy
  • heterogeneity
  • urban hydroecology

Ecological

Microtopography

Liu, Yali, Jianqing Du, Xingliang Xu, Paul Kardol, and Dan Hu. ‘Microtopography-Induced Ecohydrological Effects Alter Plant Community Structure’. Geoderma 362 (2020): 114119. https://doi.org/10/gjctt6.

Alpert, P. ‘Microtopography as Habitat Structure for Mosses on Rocks’. In Habitat Structure: The Physical Arrangement of Objects in Space, edited by Susan S. Bell, Earl D. McCoy, and Henry R. Mushinsky, 120–40. Dordrecht: Springer, 1991.

Capturing microtopography

Lucieer, Arko, Darren Turner, Diana H. King, and Sharon A. Robinson. ‘Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to Capture Micro-Topography of Antarctic Moss Beds’. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Special Issue on Polar Remote Sensing 2013, 27 (2014): 53–62. https://doi.org/10/gf84w4.

Stovall, Atticus E. L., Jacob S. Diamond, Robert A. Slesak, Daniel L. McLaughlin, and Hank Shugart. ‘Quantifying Wetland Microtopography with Terrestrial Laser Scanning’. Remote Sensing of Environment 232 (2019): 111271. https://doi.org/10/ggttfg.

Graham, Jake D., Nancy F. Glenn, Lucas P. Spaete, and Paul J. Hanson. ‘Characterizing Peatland Microtopography Using Gradient and Microform-Based Approaches’. Ecosystems 23, no. 7 (2020): 1464–80. https://doi.org/10/gk5m3z.

Vidal Vázquez, E., J. G. Vivas Miranda, and A. Paz González. ‘Characterizing Anisotropy and Heterogeneity of Soil Surface Microtopography Using Fractal Models’. Ecological Modelling 182, no. 3 (2005): 337–53. https://doi.org/10/bdvnn9.

Diamond, Jacob S., Joshua M. Epstein, Matthew J. Cohen, Daniel L. McLaughlin, Yu-Hsin Hsueh, Richard F. Keim, and Jamie A. Duberstein. ‘A Little Relief: Ecological Functions and Autogenesis of Wetland Microtopography’. WIREs Water 8, no. 1 (2021): e1493. https://doi.org/10/gq426f.

Impact on urban hydrology:

Microtopography

Voter, Carolyn B., and Steven P. Loheide II. ‘Urban Residential Surface and Subsurface Hydrology: Synergistic Effects of Low-Impact Features at the Parcel Scale’. Water Resources Research 54, no. 10 (2018): 8216–33. https://doi.org/10/gfb7j6.

Technological

To extend...

Evans, Chris J., and James B. Bryan. ‘“Structured”, “Textured” or “Engineered” Surfaces’. CIRP Annals 48, no. 2 (1999): 541–56. https://doi.org/10/dzp47f.

Lonardo, P. M., H. Trumpold, and Leonardo De Chiffre. ‘Progress in 3D Surface Microtopography Characterization’. CIRP Annals 45, no. 2 (1996): 589–98. https://doi.org/10/dbp6xv.

Footnotes

  1. Yan, Kun, Wenhao Han, Qiliang Zhu, Chuanrong Li, Zhi Dong, and Yanping Wang. ‘Leaf Surface Microtopography Shaping the Bacterial Community in the Phyllosphere: Evidence from 11 Tree Species’. Microbiological Research 254 (2022): 126897. https://doi.org/10/gq4zjz.˄

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