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PEC Exeter

And now for something completely different... **BEAVERS** Our new paper on the foraging behaviour of Devon and Norwegian beavers is now out - Open Access A short 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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PEC Exeter

In another life, I'm the River Warden for ~6 miles of the beautiful River Taw, in Devon. About 4 years ago, beavers "appeared" on our beat and I started to get interested in their behaviour A keen Norwegian MSc student, Are Vaeroyvik, set out to look at what they were gnawing

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PEC Exeter

We asked how their choice of the size of tree, species and distance from the river differed between one site where beavers were recent occupants (River Otter, Devon) and one site where they had lived for centauries (River Gjov, Norway)

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PEC Exeter

Beavers were selective in the size and species of trees that they felled. However, the beavers differed between sites in the size/distance to river and relationships whether their felling was spatially clustered or more randomly distributed.

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PEC Exeter

These differences between the two sites may reflect different optimal foraging strategies driven by different lengths of occupation by beavers in the vicinity, perhaps due to changed forage availability

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PEC Exeter

It's been fun working on this fascinating, important and perhaps controversial species, and we have a few more questions up our sleeves! (PS: PEC will not be renamed "The Cocks and Beaver Group"😳)