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ArticleEcological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America2025

Maximizing the potential benefits of beaver restoration for fire resilience and water storage.

Jessie A Moravek, Justin Brashares, Manuela Girotto, Randi Spivak, Andy Kerr, Andrea Molod, Shane Feirer, Robert Johnson, Augusto Getirana, Emily Fairfax and 1 more

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Article in Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Maximizing the potential benefits of beaver restoration for fire resilience and water storage.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Jessie A MoravekDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1938-6962
Justin BrasharesDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Manuela GirottoDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Randi SpivakThe Center for Biological Diversity, Washington, DC, USA.
Andy KerrThe Larch Company, Ashland, Oregon, USA.
Andrea MolodGlobal Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.
Shane FeirerUniversity of California Agricultural and Natural Resources, Berkeley, California, USA.
Robert JohnsonUniversity of California Agricultural and Natural Resources, Berkeley, California, USA.
Augusto GetiranaHydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.
Emily FairfaxDepartment of Geography, Environment, and Society and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-1777
Albert RuhíDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4011-6457

Funding

Center for Biological DiversityGoddard Space Flight CenterNASA Sea Level Change Science Team 80NSSC21K0321National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship ProgramUC Berkeley Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Departmental Research Grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Restoring populations of native keystone species can increase landscape resilience to global change when those species create or modify ecosystems. The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is an ecosystem engineer that increases river water storage and residence time, increasing fire resilience at the landscape level. Beaver populations in North America are significantly lower than they were historically, but over the last decade, beavers have been increasingly recognized for their ecosystem services, and reintroduction efforts throughout their historic range have become more prevalent. Here, we modeled potential beaver dam-building capacity, associated surface water storage, and fire resilience in California's Sierra Nevada, a region at high risk of drought and wildfire. We estimate that 51% of beaver dam-building capacity remains in this region compared to historical levels, and considerable dam capacity remains in all watersheds. Our conservative estimates suggest that beaver dams have the potential to store a total of 120 million m

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Conservation of Natural ResourcesFiresRodentiaWildfiresAnimalsCaliforniaEcosystemRiversbeaverBRAT modelCastor canadensisdroughtfireSierra Nevada

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PMID41084124
PMCPMC12518694

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