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Beaver pond habitat characterization

Subcategory: habitat assessment
Standard reference: Hijmans 2025
Papers: 9 | Mentions: 10

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Description

Multi-parameter assessment of beaver pond physical characteristics including area, depth, flow velocity, and beaver activity indicators to control for habitat differences in community analyses.

Typical Equipment

  • Google Earth
  • meter stick
  • ping pong ball
  • stopwatch

Output Measurements

  • pond area
  • water depth
  • flow velocity
  • beaver activity status
  • trout presence

Papers Using This Protocol (10)

student_paper

Best restoration practices: Do BDAs mimic inundation patterns of natural beaver dams?

2025using
student_paper

Aquatic invertebrate communities in old, new, and re-formed beaver ponds in the Trail Creek watershed

2024using
student_paper

Environmental Variation and Vegetative Composition in Beaver Engineered Ecosystems

2024introducing
student_paper

How beaver pond age affects aquatic invertebrates

2023using
article

Animal-Driven Nutrient Supply Declines Relative to Ecosystem Nutrient Demand Along a Pond Hydroperiod Gradient

2021Ecosystemsusing
article

Ecosystem engineering by beavers affects mayfly life histories

2011Freshwater Biologyintroducing
article

Ecosystem engineering by beavers affects mayfly life histories

2011Freshwater Biologyusing
article

Does the morphology of beaver ponds alter downstream ecosystems?

2011Hydrobiologiaintroducing
student_paper

Dispersal, phenology and habitat preference of subalpine whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Gyrinus)

2010using
thesis

Community assembly and food web interactions across pond permanence gradients

2008using