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Beavers Boreal Ecosystem Engineers

By: Carol A Johnston(Author)
272 pages, colour & b/w photos and illustrations
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Bridging the fields of ecosystem science and landscape ecology, Beavers: Boreal Ecosystem Engineers integrates Dr Carol Johnston's research on beaver ecosystem alteration at Voyageurs National Park. The findings about the vegetation, soils, and chemistry of beaver impoundments synthesised in the text provide a cohesive reference useful to wetland scientists, ecosystems and landscape ecologists, wildlife managers, and students. The beaver, Castor canadensis, is an ecosystem engineer unequalled in its capacity to alter landscapes through browsing and dam building, whose population recovery has re-established environmental conditions that probably existed for millennia prior to its near extirpation by trapping in the 1800s and 1900s. Beavers continue to regain much of their natural range throughout North America, changing stream and forest ecosystems in ways that may be lauded or vilified. Interest in beavers by ecologists remains keen as new evidence emerges about the ecological, hydrological, and biogeochemical effects of beaver browsing and construction. There is a critical need for ecologists and land managers to understand the potential magnitude, persistence, and ecosystem services of beaver landscape transformation. The 88-year record of beaver landscape occupation and alteration documented by Dr Carol Johnston and colleagues from aerial photography and field work provides a unique resource toward understanding the ecosystem effects and sustainability of beaver activity.

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1. Legacy of Beaver-Human Interaction
2. Ecosystem Engineers: Beaver Ponds
3. Altering the Water Cycle
4. Beaver Loggers: Beaver Herbivory Alters Forest Structure
5. Soils of Beaver Meadows
6. Vegetation of Beaver Impoundments
7. The Biogeochemistry of Boreal Beaver Ponds
8. Beaver Ponds and the Carbon Cycle
9. Fish Assemblages in a Beaver-Influenced Successional Landscape
10. Beavers as Engineers of Wildlife Habitat

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By: Carol A Johnston(Author)
272 pages, colour & b/w photos and illustrations
Publisher: Springer Nature
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