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Ecosystem experiment reveals benefits of natural and simulated beaver dams to a threatened population of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Beaver have been referred to as ecosystem engineers because of the large impacts their dam building activities have on the landscape; however, the benefits they may provide to fluvial fish species has been debated. We conducted a watershed-scale experiment to test how increasing beaver dam and colon...

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Autores principales: Bouwes, Nicolaas, Weber, Nicholas, Jordan, Chris E., Saunders, W. Carl, Tattam, Ian A., Volk, Carol, Wheaton, Joseph M., Pollock, Michael M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27373190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28581