STWST & Beaver Lab 2023
DOKU
– Frank Rosell & Róisin Campbell-Palmer: Beavers
– Róisin Campbell-Palmer: The Eurasian Beaver Handbook
– Dietland Müller-Schwarze: The Beaver (It’s Life & Impact)
– Elena Simon: Der Biber
– Zahner, Schmidbauer, Schwab & Angst: Der Biber (Baumeister mit Biss)
– Biologiezentrum Linz, Johanna Sieber: Biber (Die Erfolgreiche Rückkehr)
– Biologiezentrum Linz, Jürgen Plass: Atlas der Säugetiere Oberösterreichs
– Gerald Hölzler, Gundi Habenicht, Hans-Jürgen Baschinger: Mit dem Biber leben
Sachbücher, Romane & Essays:
– Ben Goldfarb: Eager (The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers & Why They Matter)
– Leila Philip: Beaverland (How One Weird Rodent Made America)
– Frances Backhouse: Beavers (Radical Rodents & Ecosystem Engineers)
– Hope Ryden: Lily Pond (Four Years with a Family of Beavers)
– Enos Abijah Mills: In Beaver World
– Lewis H. Morgan: The American Beaver And His Works
– Grey Owl / Wäscha-kwonnesin: Kleiner Bruder
– Dorothy Richards: Beaversprite
– Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: A Short History of the Blockade
Kinderbücher:
– Eva Sixt: Am Biberteich
– Randi Sonenshine & Anne Hunter: The Lodge That Beaver Built
– Sneed B. Collard & Meg Sodano: Beaver And Otter Get Along ...Sort Of
– Amy MacDonald & Sarah Fox-Davies: Der kleine Biber und das Echo
– Barbara Frischmuth: Biberzahn und der Khan der Winde
Videos:
– Beaver Lodge Construction Squad (BBC):
https://youtu.be/iyNA62FrKCE
– The Secret World Of The North American Beaver (1971):
https://youtu.be/hlhrvf-Vwfc
– Think Like A Beaver (Scottish Wild Beaver Group):
https://youtu.be/ZLNG6WppYSQ
– Want to Solve Wildfires and Drought? Leave it to Beavers! (PBS):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lT5W32xRN4
– Beavers Without Borders (Beavertrust):
https://youtu.be/q4Mmjm22GiY
– Beaver Interactive (High Desert Museum):
https://highdesertmuseum.org/beaver-interactive
– Partnering with Beavers to Restore Riverscapes and Build Climate Resilience:
https://youtu.be/QQbg4QrVryI
– Beavers Bring Back Wetlands Back To The UK (PBS)
https://youtu.be/sdkZH3uM1BI
– Why beavers matter as the planet heats up (Vox):
https://youtu.be/9CVvfFwfI4U
– Leave It To Beavers (National Geographic):
https://youtu.be/eKVSkdB1cJg
– Can beavers save salmon in oregon’s high desert? (Oregon Public Broadcasting):
https://youtu.be/kYZwzFsesVo
– Creating Miracles in the Desert: Restoring Dixie Creek:
https://youtu.be/kSctr0aQOso
– Parachuting Beavers (CBS):
https://youtu.be/snbTtuDCT6w
– Grey Owl’s Strange Quest:
https://youtu.be/D0ye0KXuF00
https://youtu.be/arMfn9s_bWk
– The Beaver Believers (Trailer):
https://youtu.be/FQbVxvYygvk
– Martinez Beavers:
https://youtu.be/9o2fO1BZ-fE
– Spawn Creek Field Tour:
http://lowtechpbr.restoration.usu.edu/resources/Topics/03_Planning/sturcturalForcing.html
– Dam Over Troubled Water – The dynamic effects of beavers on water quality in anthropogenically-impacted freshwater systems (Beaver Institute):
https://youtu.be/yWjJF9slb4w
– Beavers & Agriculture (Beaver Institute):
https://youtu.be/FHLy3h4930s
– Beaver Rewilding Impacts Measured by NASA
https://youtu.be/RAHvrLNe5K4
– Die Sendung mit der Maus: Warum fällen Biber Bäume? (WDR)
https://kinder.wdr.de/tv/die-sendung-mit-der-maus/av/video-warum-faellen-biber-baeume-100.html
– Die Rückkehr der Biber (ORF):
https://youtu.be/foRa5G-Oja8
– Von Bibern und Menschen: Wie aus Konflikten Chancen werden (SRF):
https://youtu.be/WOwGw1mJF4w
Studien & Artikel:
– The United Nations Environment Programme:
“The restoration of ecosystems is an important avenue to mitigate the risk of wildfires before they occur and to build back better in their aftermath. Wetlands restoration and the reintroduction of species such as beavers, peatlands restoration, building at a distance from vegetation and preserving open space buffers are some examples of the essential investments into prevention, preparedness and recovery.”
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/number-wildfires-rise-50-2100-and-governments-are-not-prepared
– “California’s water problems are intense; so much so they are often referred to as ‘wicked’ for their extraordinary depth of complexity and general unsolvability. Yet it recently occurred to me that some of the better and more creative solutions often derive from one particular source – nature itself. Indeed, studies of nature-based solutions or ‘NBS’ are rising rapidly (Davies and Lafortezza 2019; Nelson et al. 2020; Acreman et al. 2021), and are especially popular within the NGO and environmental communities. This blog is a brief exploration of the concept, examples of nature-based solutions, both for California water and also generally, and why they might matter to us.”
https://californiawaterblog.com/2022/03/27/nature-has-solutions-what-are-they-and-why-do-they-matter
– “Rivers and streams, when fully connected to their floodplains, are naturally resilient systems that are increasingly part of the conversation on nature-based climate solutions. Reconnecting waterways to their floodplains improves water quality and quantity, supports biodiversity and sensitive species conservation, increases flood, drought and fire resiliency, and bolsters carbon sequestration. But, while the importance of river restoration is clear, beaver-based restoration—for example, strategic coexistence, relocation, and mimicry—remains an underutilized strategy despite ample data demonstrating its efficacy. Climate-driven disturbances are actively pushing streams into increasingly degraded states, and the window of opportunity for restoration will not stay open forever. Therefore, now is the perfect time to apply the science of beaver-based low-tech process-based stream restoration to support building climate resilience across the landscape. Not every stream will be a good candidate for beaver-based restoration, but we have the tools to know which ones are. Let us use them.”
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wat2.1592
– “Beavers build dams, dig channels, and change small streams into broad wetland areas. Their ponds and channels in particular slow down water and spread it out in the landscape. This gives that water more time to soak into the soil, which ultimately keeps plants green and lush even during periods of drought. The channels the beavers dig almost act like a little drip irrigation system running throughout the entire riparian zone.”
https://emilyfairfaxscience.com/research/droughtbeavers
– “Beavers build dams, dig channels, and change small streams into broad wetland areas. This keeps plants green and lush, even during periods of drought. When a fire ignites, that green vegetation near the beaver ponds will be more difficult to burn than other nearby dry vegetation. The fire will often take the path of least resistance and burn through the dry vegetation away from beaver ponds instead of smoldering through the wet vegetation near beaver ponds.”
https://emilyfairfaxscience.com/research/firebeavers
– Ecosystem services provided by beavers:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mam.12220
– In the American West, beavers are gaining a reputation as environmental engineers who can help restore water systems — and challenge their human neighbors to think differently about land use.
https://placesjournal.org/article/landscape-with-beavers
– Beaver Dams Help Wildfire-Ravaged Ecosystems Recover Long after Flames Subside.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/beaver-dams-help-wildfire-ravaged-ecosystems-recover-long-after-flames-subside
– Beavers have long been considered pests by landowners and government agencies. But now, many are starting to embrace them. Today on the show, Host Aaron Scott tells Host Emily Kwong how these furry ecosystem engineers are showing scientists a way to save threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead.
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1095276429/why-you-should-give-a-dam-about-beavers
– Beavers are heat wave heroes:
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/23273240/heat-wave-beavers-climate-change
– Relocated Beaver Can Increase Water Storage and Decrease Stream Temperature in Headwater Streams
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4168
– Shallow open water wetlands provide critical habitat for numerous species, yet they have become increasingly vulnerable to drought and warming temperatures and are often reduced in size and depth or disappear during drought. We examined how temperature, precipitation and beaver (Castor canadensis) activity influenced the area of open water in wetlands over a 54-year period in the mixed-wood boreal region of east-central Alberta, Canada…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320707004557
– A Biodiversity Boost From the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) in Germany’s Oldest National Park:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.873307/full
– Beyond beaver wetlands: The engineering activities of a semi-aquatic mammal mediate the species richness and abundance of terrestrial birds wintering in a temperate forest:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112722006922
– Beaver and Aspen:
https://western-aspen-alliance.org/files/briefs/WAA_Brief6_Beaver_final_.pdf
– The Preferences of the European Beaver (Castor Fiber) for trees and shrubs in riparian zones:
https://www.aloki.hu/pdf/1504_313327.pdf
– Beavers and Bats:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-010-9986-7
– Can reintroduction of beavers improve insect biodiversity?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479723005078
– Beavers and Water Quality:
https://earth.stanford.edu/news/beavers-will-become-bigger-boon-river-water-quality-us-west-warms
https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/11/14/a-new-study-finds-beaver-dams-can-boost-water-quality-during-a-drought
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/effects-beaver-activity-water-quality
– Biber: Geheimwaffe gegen Klimaschäden
https://www.nationalgeographic.de/tiere/2018/08/biber-geheimwaffe-im-kampf-gegen-klimaschaeden
– Beaver ponds with more sediments store more nitrogen, simple mapping reveals.
Simple mapping of beaver ponds can help land managers and conservationists in the West detect which ponds are sponging up nitrogen and which are releasing it.
https://news.agu.org/press-release/beaver-ponds-with-more-sediments-store-more-nitrogen-simple-mapping-reveals
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JG007199
– Restoration Ecology to the Future: A Call for New Paradigm.
https://mkau.edu.et/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2-Restoration-ecology-to-the-future-a-call-for-a-new-parad.pdf
– Rewilding with the beaver in the iberian peninsula - Economic potential for river restoration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772411523000071?via%3Dihub
– Using ecosystem engineers as tools in habitat restoration and rewilding: beaver and wetlands
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717315929?via%3Dihub
– Beaver dams attenuate flow: A multi-site study
https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14017
– Krueger, Kelsey: Beaver, A Natural Solution to Urban Stream Restoration
https://soils.ifas.ufl.edu/media/soilsifasufledu/sws-main-site/pdf/technical-papers/Krueger_Kelsey_Immediate_Release.pdf
– The Beaver Restoration Guidebook: Working with Beaver to Restore Streams, Wetlands, and Floodplains
https://www.fws.gov/media/beaver-restoration-guidebook
– Beaver dams overshadow climate extremes in controlling riparian hydrology and water quality
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34022-0
– Beavers mitigate the effects of climate on the area of open water in boreal wetlands in western Canada.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320707004557
– The Beavers and the Bees: Intelligent design and the marvelous architecture of animals
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/23/cheng.php
– Verbreitung & Bestand des Bibers im Linzer Stadtgebiet
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/OEKO_2010_3_0003-0013.pdf