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Zusatztext Ellen brings together the manifold benefits that wetlands bring, for nutrient cycling, carbon and nitrogen storage, by flow moderating and improving groundwater levels and in restoring biodiverse habitats. A highly readable education on just how much more we can gain by reconnecting our rivers and flood plains, and harnessing nature to mitigate centuries of our impacts. It is as relevant in Europe as it is to North America, whether we are blessed with beavers or have to imitate their green engineering. Informationen zum Autor Ellen Wohl is a native of Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Science in geology from Arizona State University and a PhD in geosciences from the University of Arizona. She has been on the faculty at Colorado State University since 1989. Wohl has conducted fieldwork worldwide, and her research focuses on rivers, including the effects of beavers on river process and form. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America. Klappentext Saving the Dammed follows the course of the seasons throughout one representative year at a beaver meadow in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The seasonal changes provide a backdrop against which to explore how beavers change river valleys and how the decline in beaver populations has altered river ecosystems. Zusammenfassung Saving the Dammed follows the course of the seasons throughout one representative year at a beaver meadow in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The seasonal changes provide a backdrop against which to explore how beavers change river valleys and how the decline in beaver populations has altered river ecosystems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: -The Beaver Meadow on North St. Vrain Creek -The Great Drying -A Watery Microcosm January: -Of Rocks and Ice -The Setting -The Rocks -The Ice -After the Glaciers February: -About Beavers -The Meadow in February -Worth a Dam -About Beavers -The Family Tree of Beavers -The Southern Colonists -Where Beavers Belong March: -Water Superheroes -The Meadow in March -Fire, Flood, and Drought -Water Superheroes April: -Six Degrees of Connectivity -A Rolling Sand Grain Makes No Soil -To Make a Meadow It Takes a Beaver and One Dam -Beavers Versus Glaciers -Only Connect... or Disconnect May: -Plugging the Nutrient Leaks -Biogeochemical Engineers -Carbon Stored Versus Carbon Lost June: -The Thin Green Line -The Beavers and the Forest -The Thin Green Line -Green Engineering July: -Of Fish and Frogs and Flying Things -A Fish in Every Pond -Cutthroat Competition August: -Legacy Effects -Creating a Fur Desert -Colorado Mountain Men -A Legacy of Absence September: -Alternate Realities -Beaver Meadows and Elk Grasslands -Nature Green in Tooth and Paw October: -Of Beavers and Humans -Lessons Not Yet Learned -Beaver Leas -Appreciating Beavers November: -Beavers to the Rescue -Leave it to Beavers -Beavers to the Rescue December: -Saving the Dammed -Taking the Pulse of the North St. Vrain Beaver Meadow -Ecosystem Services -Betting on Beavers Bibliography Index ...
