The geomorphic influences of burrowing beavers on streambanks, Bolin Creek, North Carolina

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 453-468

  Meentemeyer, Ross K ^a   Vogler, John B ^a   Butler, David R ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RIVER BANK; RODENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BOLIN CREEK; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

CASTOR CANADENSIS;

EID: 0032409186     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. APPLE, L. L., B. H. SMITH, J. D. DUNDER & B. W. BAKER (1985): The use of beavers for riparian/aquatic habitat restoration of cold desert, gull-cut stream systems in southwestern Wyoming. - In: PILLERI, G. (ed.) (1985): Investigations on Beavers Volume IV: 123-130; Brain Anatomy Instiute, Berne.
2. BERGSTROM, D. (1985): Beavers: biologists "rediscover" a natural resource - Forestry Research West, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1-5.
3. BOEKEN, B., M. SHACHAK & S. BRAND (1995): Patchiness and disturbance: plant community responses to porcupine diggings in the central Negev - Ecography 18: 410-422.
4. BUTLER, D. R. (1991): Beavers as agents of biogeomorphic change: a review and suggestions for teaching exercises - J. of Geography 90: 210-217.
5. _ (1992): The grizzly bear as an erosional agent in mountainous terrain - Z. Geomorph. N.F. 36: 179-189.
6. _ (1995): Zoogeomorphology: Animals as Geomorphic Agents - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 231 pp.
7. BUTLER, D. R. & G. P. MALANSON (1994): Canadian landform examples - beaver landforms -Can. Geogr. 38: 76-79.
8. BUTLER, D. R. & G. P. MALANSON (1995): Sedimentation rates and patterns in beaver ponds in a mountain environment - Geomorphology 13: 255-269.
9. COLEMAN, R. L. & C. N. DAHM (1990): Stream geomorphology: effects on periphyton standing crop and primary production. - J. of the North Amer. Benthological Soc. 9: 293-302.
10. DIETER, C. D. & T. R. MCCABE (1989): Factors influencing beaver lodge-site selection on a prairie river - The American Midland Naturalist 122: 408-411.
11. ELDRIDGE, D. J. (1994): Nests of ants and termites influence infiltration in a semi-arid woodland - Pedobiologia 38: 481-492.
12. FFOLLIOTT, P. F., W. P. CLARY & F. R. LARSON (1976): Observations of beaver activity in an extreme environment - Southwestern Naturalist 21: 131-133.
13. HARTMAN, G. (1996): Habitat selection by European beaver (Castor fiber) colonizing a boreal landscape - J. of Zoology, London 240: 317-325.
14. JOHNSTON, C. A. (1994): Ecological engineering of wetlands by beavers. - In: MITSCH, W. J. (ed.) (1994): Global Wetlands: Old World and New: 379-384; Elsevier.
15. JOHNSTON, C. A. & R. J. NAIMAN (1987): Boundary dynamics at the aquatic-terrestrial interface: the influence of beaver and geomorphology. - Landscape Ecology 1: 47-57.
16. JOHNSTON, C. A., G. PINAY, C. ARENS & R. J. NAIMAN (1995): Influence of soil properties on the biogeochemistry of a beaver meadow sequence - Soil Science Soc. of America J. 59(6): 1789-1799.
17. JONES, C. G., J. H. LAWTON & M. SHACHAK (1994): Organisms as ecosystem engineers. - Oikos 69: 373-386.
18. MAHANEY, W. C., R. G. V. HANCOCK & M. A. HUFFMAN (1996): Geochemistry and clay mineralogy of termite mound soil and the role of geophagy in chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania - Primates 37: 121-134.
19. MARET, T. J., M. PARKER & T. E. FANNIN (1987): The effect of beaver ponds on the nonpoint source of water quality of a stream in southwestern Wyoming - Water Res. 21: 263-268.
20. MARSTON, R. A. (1994): River entrenchment in small mountain valleys of the western USA; influence of beaver, grazing and clearcut logging - Rev. de Geogr. de Lyon 69: 11-15.
21. NAIMAN, R. J., J. M. MELILLO & J. E. HOBBIE (1986): Ecosystem alteration of a boreal forest stream by beaver (Castor canadensis) - Ecology 67: 1254-1269.
22. NAIMAN, R. J., C. A. JOHNSTON & J. C. KELLY (1988): Alteration of North American streams by beaver - BioScience 38: 753-762.
23. OLSON, R. & W. A. HUBERT (1994): Beaver: Water Resources and Riparian Habitat Manager. -University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.
24. RUEDEMANN, R. & W. J. SCHOONMAKER (1938): Beaver-dams as geologic agents - Science 88: 523-525.
25. TRIMBLE, S. W. & A. C. MENDEL (1995): The cow as a geomorphic agent - a critical review -Geomorphol. 13: 233-253.
26. VILES, H. A. (ed.). (1988): Biogeomorphology. - Basil Blackwell, Inc., New York.
27. WOO, M.-K. & J. M. WADDINGTON (1990): Effects of beaver dams on subarctic wetland hydrology. - Arctic 43: 223-230.
28. WOODWARD, D. K. & R. B. HAZEL (1991): Beavers in North Carolina: Ecology, Utilization, and Management. - North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Raleigh. Publication No. AG-434.
29. WOODWARD, D. K., R. B. HAZEL & B. P. GAFFNEY (1985): Economic and environmental impacts of beaver in North Carolina. - In: BROMLEY, P. T. (ed.) (1985): Proceedings of the Second Eastern Damage Control Conference. Raleigh, NC, 89-96.
30. ZIEBIS, W., S. FORSTER & B. B. JORGENSEN (1996): Complex burrows of the mud shrimp Callianassa truncata and their geochemical impact in the sea bed - Nature 382(6592): 619-621.