Beaver Engineering: Tracking a New Disturbance in the Arctic

• Main Authors: Tape, Ken D., Clark, Jason A., Jones, Benjamin M., Wheeler, Helen C., Marsh, Philip, Rosell, Frank
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Beaver Pond; Canada; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/707512/; https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/707512/1/ARC21_Beaver_Engineering.pdf; https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/707512/6/NOAA_permission.png; https://doi.org/10.25923/0jtd-vv85

Highlights: -Recent satellite imagery and older aerial photography show that North American beavers (Castor canadensis) are colonizing the Arctic tundra of Alaska, with over 12,000 ponds thus far counted in western Alaska, a doubling of ponds since 2000. -In Canada, beaver pond mapping is underway,...