Beaver: Nature's ecosystem engineers

RE Brazier, A Puttock, HA Graham… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Beavers have the ability to modify ecosystems profoundly to meet their ecological needs,
with significant associated hydrological, geomorphological, ecological, and societal impacts …

Global review of the physical and biological effectiveness of stream habitat rehabilitation techniques

P Roni, K Hanson, T Beechie - North American Journal of Fisheries …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The degradation of inland aquatic habitats caused by decades of human activities has led to
worldwide efforts to rehabilitate freshwater habitats for fisheries and aquatic resources. We …

Using beaver dams to restore incised stream ecosystems

MM Pollock, TJ Beechie, JM Wheaton, CE Jordan… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Biogenic features such as beaver dams, large wood, and live vegetation are essential to the
maintenance of complex stream ecosystems, but these features are largely absent from …

[BOEK][B] The Routledge handbook of placemaking

C Courage, T Borrup, MR Jackson, K Legge… - 2021 - api.taylorfrancis.com
This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking'in terms of the recent
research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering …

Beaver: The North American freshwater climate action plan

CE Jordan, E Fairfax - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rivers and streams, when fully connected to their floodplains, are naturally resilient systems
that are increasingly part of the conversation on nature‐based climate solutions …

Tundra be dammed: Beaver colonization of the Arctic

KD Tape, BM Jones, CD Arp, I Nitze… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing air temperatures are changing the arctic tundra biome. Permafrost is thawing,
snow duration is decreasing, shrub vegetation is proliferating, and boreal wildlife is …

Qualitative and quantitative effects of reintroduced beavers on stream fish

PS Kemp, TA Worthington, TEL Langford… - Fish and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Reintroduction of beaver (Castor spp) may facilitate rehabilitation of freshwater habitats
providing a cost‐effective sustainable means of improving ecological conditions. Despite …

Distribution of salmon‐habitat potential relative to landscape characteristics and implications for conservation

KM Burnett, GH Reeves, DJ Miller… - Ecological …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The geographic distribution of stream reaches with potential to support high‐quality habitat
for salmonids has bearing on the actual status of habitats and populations over broad spatial …

Impacts of beaver dams on hydrologic and temperature regimes in a mountain stream

M Majerova, BT Neilson, NM Schmadel… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2015 - hess.copernicus.org
Beaver dams affect hydrologic processes, channel complexity, and stream temperature in
part by inundating riparian areas, influencing groundwater–surface water interactions, and …

Modeling intrinsic potential for beaver (Castor canadensis) habitat to inform restoration and climate change adaptation

BJ Dittbrenner, MM Pollock, JW Schilling, JD Olden… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Through their dam-building activities and subsequent water storage, beaver have the
potential to restore riparian ecosystems and offset some of the predicted effects of climate …