Welcome to "Listening in to the Biodiversity of Beaver Wetlands"!
Date: Wed May 15 2024
Time: 18:00
As part of this year's Orkney Nature Festival, PhD researcher Alex Adams will be discussing his current work listening in to the soundscapes of beaver-engineered wetlands.
The activities of beavers can have widespread and profound ecological impacts, which can benefit many other species, from birds and bats to amphibians, insects and even plants. Beavers modify their habitat by felling trees and building dams, which can also produce significant hydrological changes, improving downstream water quality and reducing the impact of flooding, drought, and wildfires.
Monitoring these habitat changes is a scientific priority, and Alex is using ecoacoustics, the study of environmental sounds, to answer his key research question: do beavers improve ecosystem resilience?
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