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Beavers can convert stream corridors to persistent carbon sinks
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Beavers can convert stream corridors to persistent carbon sinks
Recent reintroductions of the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) across Europe represents an ecological shift with potential implications for carbon cycling in stream corridors. However, the capacity of beaver impacts to influence short- and long-term carbon fluxes, and the mechanisms that govern these changes, remains poorly understood. We present a comprehensive carbon budget of a beaver-influenced stream corridor, covering all major aqueous and a…
European beavers are a species present in several rivers in Europe and Spain that has recovered land in recent decades, and whose activity begins to show measurable effects on the functioning of river ecosystems. The study, led by the University of Birmingham, confirms that the fluvial stretches where these animals act retain 26% more carbon per year. The research details how their prey transform the functioning of the river and change their rol…
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