TY - JOUR
T1 - One House is a Home for Many
T2 - Temporal Partitioning of Vertebrates on an American Beaver Lodge
AU - Tye, Simon P.
AU - Geluso, Keith
AU - Harner, Mary
AU - Siepielski, Adam M.
AU - Forsberg, Michael L.
AU - Brinley Buckley, Emma M.
AU - Dale, Jeffrey S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments.—We thank the Crane Trust for logistical support and property access; David Weber at TRLcam.com, LLC, for helping with the camera system; Emma Keele for helping with image analysis; J.D. Willson for comments on an earlier version of this manuscript, and three anonymous reviewers for insightful comments that strengthened the manuscript. Funding was provided by the University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative, University of Nebraska at Kearney Undergraduate Research Fellows Program, and Platte Basin Timelapse. This material is based upon work supported in part by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. 1842401 awarded to SPT.
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PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - American beavers (Castor canadensis) are emblematic of diverse and dynamic freshwater ecosystems across North America. Numerous studies have described positive associations between beaver-modified habitats and biodiversity across a wide range of taxa. Yet few studies have documented biodiversity associated with the epicenter of beaver-modified habitats-the beaver lodge. We used an internet-connected, solar-powered, time-lapse camera system to examine daily and seasonal temporal partitioning amongst vertebrate taxa that visited an American beaver lodge in south-central Nebraska over 9 mo. We observed at least 28 species on the lodge, and many organisms were present during discrete daily and seasonal time periods. These observations provide a more holistic view of a widely recognized, yet understudied, component of beaver-modified habitats. Future use of similar visual-recording systems may reveal that other animal structures, such as burrows, nests, and hives, are prominent ecosystem components in the wild.
AB - American beavers (Castor canadensis) are emblematic of diverse and dynamic freshwater ecosystems across North America. Numerous studies have described positive associations between beaver-modified habitats and biodiversity across a wide range of taxa. Yet few studies have documented biodiversity associated with the epicenter of beaver-modified habitats-the beaver lodge. We used an internet-connected, solar-powered, time-lapse camera system to examine daily and seasonal temporal partitioning amongst vertebrate taxa that visited an American beaver lodge in south-central Nebraska over 9 mo. We observed at least 28 species on the lodge, and many organisms were present during discrete daily and seasonal time periods. These observations provide a more holistic view of a widely recognized, yet understudied, component of beaver-modified habitats. Future use of similar visual-recording systems may reveal that other animal structures, such as burrows, nests, and hives, are prominent ecosystem components in the wild.
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U2 - 10.1674/0003-0031-185.2.229
DO - 10.1674/0003-0031-185.2.229
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105126846
SN - 0003-0031
VL - 185
SP - 229
EP - 240
JO - American Midland Naturalist
JF - American Midland Naturalist
IS - 2
ER -