{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Graham HA"],"funding":["University of Exeter","Natural Environment Research Council","Wellcome Trust"],"pagination":["e14735"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9828392"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["36(11)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Beavers influence hydrology by constructing woody dams. Using a Before After Control Impact experimental design, we quantified the effects of a beaver dam sequence on the flow regime of a stream in SW England and consider the mechanisms that underpin flow attenuation in beaver wetlands. Rainfall-driven hydrological events were extracted between 2009 and 2020, for the impacted (<i>n</i> = 612) and control (<i>n</i> = 634) catchments, capturing events 7 years before and 3 years after beaver occupancy, at the impacted site. General additive models were used to describe average hydrograph geometry across all events. After beaver occupancy, Lag times increased by 55.9% in the impacted site and declined by 17.5% in the control catchment. Flow duration curve analysis showed a larger reduction in "],"journal":["Hydrological processes"],"pubmed_title":["Exploring the dynamics of flow attenuation at a beaver dam sequence."],"pmcid":["PMC9828392"],"funding_grant_id":["NERC/PE/2016_087","580011415"],"pubmed_authors":["Anderson K","Graham HA","Brazier RE","Elliott M","Puttock AK"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Exploring the dynamics of flow attenuation at a beaver dam sequence.","description":"Beavers influence hydrology by constructing woody dams. Using a Before After Control Impact experimental design, we quantified the effects of a beaver dam sequence on the flow regime of a stream in SW England and consider the mechanisms that underpin flow attenuation in beaver wetlands. Rainfall-driven hydrological events were extracted between 2009 and 2020, for the impacted (<i>n</i> = 612) and control (<i>n</i> = 634) catchments, capturing events 7 years before and 3 years after beaver occupancy, at the impacted site. General additive models were used to describe average hydrograph geometry across all events. After beaver occupancy, Lag times increased by 55.9% in the impacted site and declined by 17.5% in the control catchment. Flow duration curve analysis showed a larger reduction in ","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Nov","modification":"2026-03-27T15:40:13.483Z","creation":"2025-04-05T10:26:45.875Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9828392","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36636487"],"doi":["10.1002/hyp.14735"]}}