6 Roles Beavers Play in the Environment

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Beavers are considered a keystone species in their ecosystem.

This means they help define the entire ecosystem.

If beavers entirely disappeared from the ecosystem, no other species would be able to fill their role.

The beaver has such a specific ecological niche that the ecosystem itself would be forced to change in its absence.

Beavers are known as allogenic engineers, changing their environment from one state to another.

Here are some of the roles beavers play in the ecosystem as a keystone species and allogenic engineers.

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Video Transcript:
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Have you found a beaver on your property on the neighborhood stream? Don't be so quick to get rid of it. Beavers actually play a number of positive roles in their environment and in today's video, we have the top things you should know.

Number one, beavers maintain Woodland ecosystems by taking down trees. Beavers permit new pioneering light-hungry trees to grow in the forest to generate. Number two, beavers convert streams into Wetland habitats.

Now you may be thinking, why would I want a wetland isn't that a downside? Well as we've shown in previous videos wetlands are actually some of the most important environments in our world. The wetlands created by beaver dams provide a home for numerous species but perhaps more importantly for you.

Wetlands prevent flooding in the nearby area. Number three, as we just alluded to Beavers create biodiversity. Wetlands are some of the most biodiverse habitats on Earth and when beavers create them they provide homes for many species that could not otherwise Thrive without them for this reason beavers are considered ecosystem engineers.

Number four, beavers help reduce the impact of climate change. One study showed that the river temperature Downstream of beaver dams was 2.5 degrees Celsius lower than Upstream. This is because beaver dams collect water and allow it to recharge but on top of this beaver dams also store carbon.

Number five, beaver dams store water during droughts. Well just mentioned one of the biggest changes beaver dams make in the environment is that they store more water in the surrounding area. This means that when dry conditions come around, there will be excess water stored to help maintain Stream flow and number six.

Beavers help improve water quality. Again beaver dams create wetlands and wetlands are nature's filtration systems which means that the water around Beave Dams has fewer nutrients pollutants and sediments than in other no-beaver ponds. So that covers some of the surprising benefits of beaver but are you still not convinced?

Perhaps you are like a man Ben Goldfarb a true Beaver believer met when documenting a beaver catch and release. When Be pointed out the beaver scuttle nervously in a cage as it was boosted into a scientist's truck. The man said why don't you just shoot the well you get the picture.

Many people are like this elderly gentleman who I should point out in Good Samaritan fashion was picking up trash on the side of the road. Believe beavers are only good at plugging up culverts and streams. Which is why I wanted to make a video on them.

You see not every Community is hostile to beavers the Tula lip tribe or the people of the salmon have lived in the Puget Sound area for thousands of years. Salmon are sacred to the Tulalip. so they are doing perhaps more than anyone else to try to stem the collapse of Puget sound's wild population.

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