TY - T1 - Beaver creates early successional hotspots for water beetles SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/333034 T3 - A1 - Nummi, Petri; Liao, Wenfei; van der Schoor, Juliette; Loehr, John A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - Beavers (Castor spp.) are ecosystem engineers that induce local disturbance and ecological succession, which turns terrestrial into aquatic ecosystems and creates habitat heterogeneity in a landscape. Beavers have been proposed as a tool for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration. So far, most research has compared biodiversity in beaver wetlands and non-beaver wetlands, but few studies have explored how beaver-created succession affects specific taxa. In this study, we investigated... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology; Aquatic insect; Biodiversity; Conservation; Dytiscidae; Facilitation; Landscape heterogeneity; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEER; SPECIES RICHNESS; CASTOR-CANADENSIS; FISH ASSEMBLAGES; INVERTEBRATES; HABITAT; DISTURBANCE; LANDSCAPES; DYTISCIDAE; DIVERSITY N1 - PP - ER -