Do beaver dams reduce habitat connectivity and salmon productivity in expansive river floodplains?

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Malison, Rachel L., Kuzishchin, Kirill V., Stanford, Jack A.
• Other Authors: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ 2016
• Subjects: Beaver Ponds; Kol’; Kamchatka; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2403; https://peerj.com/articles/2403.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/2403.xml; https://peerj.com/articles/2403.html

Beaver have expanded in their native habitats throughout the northern hemisphere in recent decades following reductions in trapping and reintroduction efforts. Beaver have the potential to strongly influence salmon populations in the side channels of large alluvial rivers by building dams that creat...