Beavers, Castor canadensis in North America and Castor fiber in Eurasia, are widely
referred to as nature's engineers due to their ability to rapidly transform diverse landscapes …

Freshwater megafauna, such as sturgeons, giant catfishes, river dolphins, hippopotami,
crocodylians, large turtles, and giant salamanders, have experienced severe population …

Uncounted millions of beaver ponds and dams existed in North America prior to European
contact and colonization. These ponds acted as sediment traps that contained tens to …

Beaver are recolonizing previously occupied regions, expanding into new territories, and
increasingly being introduced and protected for stream conservation and restoration across …

Fluvial geomorphology concerns the transport of weathered rock debris and its
accumulation and organization into land‐forms that evolve continuously. Sediment budgets …

Sediment depth and stream-flow data from 10 beaver ponds illustrate that beavers (Castor
canadensis) considerably influence hydrogeomorphic processes in low-order stream …

Abstract The European beaver (Castor fiber) was reintroduced in the Polish Carpathians in
the 1980s after a few centuries of absence. It gradually colonized suitable habitats in the …

Sediment quantity and quality are key considerations in the sustainable management of
fluvial systems. Increasing attention is being paid to the role of aquatic biota as geomorphic …

Soil-disturbing vertebrates (SDV) are relatively low in biodiversity and biomass compared
with the dominant soil fauna (microorganisms and invertebrates), but they can nevertheless …

Beaver convert lotic stream habitat to lentic through dam construction, and the process is
reversed when a flood or other event causes dam failure. We investigated both processes …