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Using Beaver Dams to Restore Incised Stream Ecosystems
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Using Beaver Dams to Restore Incised Stream Ecosystems |
| Creator | Pollock, Michael M. Beechie, Timothy J. Wheaton, Joseph M. Jordan, Chris E. Bouwes, Nick Weber, Nicholas Volk, Carol |
| Description | 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 models of how streams change over time. Many streams have incised because of changing climate or land-use practices. Because incised streams provide limited benefits to biota, they are a common focus of restoration efforts. Contemporary models of long-term change in streams are focused primarily on physical... |
| Date | 2014-04-01T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Identifier | http://works.bepress.com/joseph_wheaton/67 http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/64/4/279.short |
| Source | Joseph M. Wheaton |
| Publisher | SelectedWorks |
| Subject | ecosystem restoration stream restoration conservation beaver Castor canadensis Life Sciences Physical Sciences and Mathematics |
