Castor canadensis Kuhl (North American Beaver): Building effective alliances between research and management to mitigate the impacts of an invasive ecosystem engineer. Lessons from the study and control of Castor canadensis in the Fuegian archipelago

• Main Authors: Anderson, Christopher Brian, Soto, Nicolas, Cabello, José Luis, Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José, Lencinas, María Vanessa, Wallem Stein, Karin Petra, Antúnez, Daniela Rita, Davis, Ernesto
• Other Authors: Francis, Robert A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge
• Subjects: CASTOR; IMPACTO; RESTAURACION; NOTHOFAGUS; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.1; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4; Antarctic; Austral; Argentina; Martínez; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/135927

The sub-Antarctic archipelago, shared between Chile and Argentina (Fig. 1), confronts a paradox; on one hand, portions of this ecoregion are some of the least disturbed ecosystems on the planet (i.e. low human population density, highly intact native vegetation cover and over 50% of its territory fa...