ecosystem engineering

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The modification of environments by organisms in ways that influence resource availability for other species, exemplified by beaver dam construction creating pond habitats.

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microenvironment modificationlocal environmental modificationecosystem engineerdisturbanceinteraction modificationbeaver-engineered structureshabitat modificationecosystem engineersbeaver engineeringecological engineers

ecosystem engineering

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Best restoration practices: Do BDAs mimic inundation patterns of natural beaver dams?

Evaluating differences in water temperature and macroinvertebrate communities in BDA ponds, stream pools, and beaver dam ponds

Aquatic invertebrate communities in old, new, and re-formed beaver ponds in the Trail Creek watershed

Environmental Variation and Vegetative Composition in Beaver Engineered Ecosystems

Linking microenvironment modification to species interactions and demography in an alpine plant community

How beaver pond age affects aquatic invertebrates

Beaver dams overshadow climate extremes in controlling riparian hydrology and water quality

Shifting macroecological patterns and static theory failure in a stressed alpine plant community

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species diversity

indicator species

thermal performance

groundwater-surface water interactions

groundwater storage dynamics

space use

beaver dam analogues

elevational gradients

hemiparasitism

climate change impacts

Frequently Associated Species

Castor canadensis

Castor

Artemisia

Baetis

Chironomidae

aquatic macroinvertebrates

A. tridentata

riparian plants

Castilleja

Artemisia tridentata

The impact of </Didymosphenia geminata> on the community structures of invertebrates in streams around the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab

Parasitism modifies the direct effects of warming on a hemiparasite and its host

The Effects of Ants on Ecosystem Dynamics: Investigating the Ecological Influence of Ant Nests in the Rocky Mountains

Pocket gopher activity across elevation gradients.

Ecosystem engineering by beavers affects mayfly life histories

Does the morphology of beaver ponds alter downstream ecosystems?

Ant presences alter plants: The impact <i>Formica obscuripes</i> presence on plants and soil micro-anthropod diversity

Impact of mound-building ants on ecosystem properties create islands of fertility in alpine meadows

Nest site selection by a secondary cavity-nesting species, the mountain bluebird

Effects of single and terraced beaver ponds on benthic macroinvertebrate communities