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Beavers and Water Storage:
- Effects of Beaver Dams on Subarctic Wetland Hydrology - by Ming-Ko Woo: Researchers use water balance equation to compare the water balance at outlets of basins with and without beaver dams. The dammed basin suppressed the outflow and increased the basin water storage, though lost more water to evaporation (Arctic Institute of North America, 1990).
- Beaver Dams and Overbank floods influence groundwater-surface water interactions of a rocky mountain riparian area - by Cherie Westbrook: Examined the influence of two in-channel beaver dams and a 10 year flood event on surface inundation, groundwater levels, and flow patterns in a broad alluvial valley. The beaver dams and ponds greatly enhanced the depth, extent, and duration of inundation associated with floods; they also elevate the water table during both high and low flows (Water Resources Research, 2006).
- Effects of a beaver pond on groundwater elevation and temperatures in a recovering stream system - by Michael Lowry: Results of this study support the conclusion commonly expressed in literature, but seldom quantified, that elevated water tables do occur adjacent to beaver ponds (American Water Resources Association, 1994).
- Boundary dynamics at the aquatic-terrestrial interface: the influence of beaver and geomorphology - by Carol Johnston: Beaver
create patch boundaries as well as alter energy fluxes by transferring
materials across patch body boundaries (Landscape Ecology 1987).
- Aquatic Patch creation in relation to beaver population trends - by Carol Johnston: New
beaver pond creation decreases in an area over time and is limited to the
landscape of a region, and the area's ability to sustain a population (Ecology
1990).
- Beaver
Wetlands - by Sharon T. Brown and Suzanne Fouty: Being one of the only creatures
on the planet besides humans able to build large and complex structures that
can be seen from space, Beavers could serve as an immense asset in water
storage if allowed to expand and prosper in appropriate areas (Lakeline 2011).
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