Consequences of beaver, Castor canadensis, flooding on a small shore fen in Southwestern Quebec

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 385-394

  Reddoch, Joyce M ^a   Reddoch, Allan H ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beaver; Castor canadensis; Fen; Flooding; Floristics; Quebec; Shallow water wetland; Shore fen; Water levels; Wetland succession

Indexed keywords

FEN; FLOODING; PEATLAND; RODENT; SHALLOW WATER; WATER LEVEL; WETLAND;

CANADA; GATINEAU PARK; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

CASTOR CANADENSIS;

EID: 33845919059     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v119i3.150     Document Type: Article

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