Invasive beavers: Bad for the climate
Scientists documented the effects of invasive North American beavers (Castor canadensis) on carbon sequestration of a riparian forest in Tierra del Fuego.
Environment
May 2, 2019
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Beavers have an impact on the climate
Growing beaver populations have created a large number of new habitats along rivers and ponds. Beaver dams raise the water level, enabling the dissolution of the organic carbon from the soil. From beaver ponds, carbon is ...
Environment
Aug 29, 2018
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Beavers do dam good work cleaning water, research reveals
Beavers could help clean up polluted rivers and stem the loss of valuable soils from farms, new research shows.
Environment
May 9, 2018
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Argentina to exterminate 100,000 ravenous beavers
Argentina will cull 100,000 beavers which are devastating southern woodlands by gnawing down huge trees, officials said Monday.
Ecology
Nov 14, 2016
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Dam good! Beavers may restore imperiled streams, fish populations
Utah State University scientists report a watershed-scale experiment in highly degraded streams within Oregon's John Day Basin demonstrates building beaver dam analogs allows beavers to increase their dam building activities, ...
Ecology
Jul 8, 2016
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Beavers bring environmental benefits
Beavers are beneficial to the Scottish environment, say academics from The University of Stirling.
Ecology
Feb 16, 2016
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Dam good research on invasive beavers in Patagonia
For three years, Duke student Alejandro Pietrek has bravely grappled with some unusual marauders of the forests and steppes of Patagonia: invasive beavers. A biology graduate student, Pietrek recently presented his dissertation ...
Ecology
Dec 14, 2015
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Beavers restore dead wood in boreal forests
New research shows that beavers create significant amounts of dead wood into the lowland shore forests of boreal wetlands. Particularly snags and deciduous dead wood are formed through the beavers' actions.
Ecology
Nov 23, 2015
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Ecologists enlist beavers, walmart in wetlands conservation effort
As they pull into the parking lot, shoppers preoccupied with the day's errands barely notice the small creek surrounding Logan, Utah's Walmart Supercenter. Yet the waters, shrouded by willows and cattails, teem with beavers, ...
Ecology
Oct 15, 2015
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Fossils of previously unknown beaver species found in Oregon
A fossilized skull and teeth from a newly described species of beaver that lived 28 million years ago have been unearthed in eastern Oregon.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 1, 2015
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