Tundra be dammed: Beaver colonization of the Arctic

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Tape, Ken D., Jones, Benjamin M., Arp, Christopher D., Nitze, Ingmar, Grosse, Guido
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Beaver Pond; Beaver Ponds; Ice; permafrost; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47723/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47723/1/Tape_etal_2018.pdf; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14332; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.e7e0f5d1-9d50-4f91-8e92-c2086a38d580; https://hdl.handle.net/

Increasing air temperatures are changing the arctic tundra biome. Permafrost is thawing, snow duration is decreasing, shrub vegetation is proliferating, and boreal wildlife is encroaching. Here we present evidence of the recent range expansion of North American beaver (Castor canadensis) into the Ar...