Beaver (Castor canadensis) mitigate the effects of climate on the area of open water in boreal wetlands in western Canada

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Climate‐change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long? (2020, background): “Beavers (Castor canadensis) can also act as ecosystem engineers, creating and maintaining wetlands as well as buffering forest landscapes from drought over multiple decades (Hood and Bayley 2008).”
Aerial photography collected with a multirotor drone reveals impact of Eurasian beaver reintroduction on ecosystem structure1 (2015, background): “Dam construction increases catchment hydrological storage capacity (Hammerson 1994; Hood and Bayley 2008), reduces stream velocity and peak discharge, altering flow regimes locally (Burchsted and Daniels 2014) and downstream (Polvi and Wohl 2012), so there is expected to be a positive impact on…”