Fish, Floods, and Ecosystem Engineers: Aquatic Conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

By K. Mosepele, Peter B. Moyle, G. S. Merron, D. Purkey, B. Mosepele. 2009

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Whole‐community facilitation by beaver: ecosystem engineer increases waterbird diversity (2014, background): “Some studies have been made on the effects of beavers and hippopotamuses on fish, but in these the possible increase in species number is usually seen at a stream level; at a patch or reach level the effect on species richness can be either positive or negative (Snodgrass and Meffe, 1998; Collen and”
Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation (2016, background): “The hippopotamus, for example, appears to help physically engineer fish nursery habitats into wetlands (Mosepele et al. 2009) and provision freshwater ecosystems with terrestrially derived nutrients that are used by other ecologically important freshwater fauna (McCauley et al. 2015a).”
The hippopotamus conveyor belt: vectors of carbon and nutrients from terrestrial grasslands to aquatic systems in sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “…the presence of other herbivores (Verweij et al., 2006; Kanga et al., 2013), maintain open-water areas used by other species (Naiman & Rogers, 1997) and create paths that influence geomorphology, hydrology and ecosystem connectivity (McCarthy, Ellery & Bloem, 1998; Mosepele et al., 2009).”