Saving the Dammed: Why We Need Beaver-Modified Ecosystems by Wohl, Ellen

Saving the Dammed: Why We Need Beaver-Modified Ecosystems

The ability of beavers to create an abundant habitat for a diverse array of plants and animals...
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Author: Ellen Wohl
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Saving the Dammed: Why We Need Beaver-Modified Ecosystems by Wohl, Ellen

Saving the Dammed: Why We Need Beaver-Modified Ecosystems

CHF 89.76

Saving the Dammed: Why We Need Beaver-Modified Ecosystems

CHF 89.76
Author: Ellen Wohl
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The ability of beavers to create an abundant habitat for a diverse array of plants and animals has been analyzed time and again. The disappearance of beavers across the northern hemisphere, and what this effects, has yet to be comprehensively studied. Saving the Dammed analyzes the beneficial role of beavers and their dams in the ecosystem of a river, focusing on one beaver meadow in Colorado. In her latest book, Ellen Wohl contextualizes North St. Vrain Creek by discussing the implications of the loss of beavers across much larger areas. Saving the Dammed raises awareness of rivers as ecosystems and the role beavers play in sustaining the ecosystem surrounding rivers by exploring the macrocosm of global river alteration, wetland loss, and the reduction in ecosystem services. The resulting reduction in ecosystem services span things such as flood control, habitat abundance and biodiversity, and nitrate reduction. Allowing readers to follow her as she crawls through seemingly
impenetrable spaces with slow and arduous movements, Wohl provides a detailed narrative of beaver meadows.
Saving the Dammed takes readers through twelve months at a beaver meadow in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, exploring how beavers change river valleys and how the decline in beaver populations has altered river ecosystems. As Wohl analyzes and discusses the role beavers play in the ecosystem of a river, readers get to follow her through tight, seemingly impenetrable, crawl spaces as she uncovers the benefit of dams.


Author: Ellen Wohl
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/19/2019
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780190943523

About the Author

Ellen Wohl is a native of Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Science in geology from Arizona State University and a PhD in geosciences from the University of Arizona. She has been on the faculty at Colorado State University since 1989. Wohl has conducted fieldwork worldwide, and her research focuses
on rivers, including the effects of beavers on river process and form. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America.



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