Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area
Tags: Beaver
| Principal Investigator: | Wheeler, Helen (10) |
| Licence Number: | 17533 |
| Organization: | Anglia Ruskin University |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2024
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| Issued: | May 24, 2024 |
| Project Team: | Steve Andersen |
Objective(s): 1. To monitor beaver occurrence changes 2. To assess past beaver occupancy patterns using shrub ring analysis. 3. To understand how permanent and transient beaver populations impact their environment 4. To understand the associations between beaver populations and other wildlife species.
Project Description: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5923. Objectives: 1, To monitor beaver occurrence changes 2, To assess past beaver occupancy patterns using shrub ring analysis. 3, To understand how permanent and transient beaver populations impact their environment 4. To understand the associations between beaver populations and other wildlife species. Methodology: 1. Conduct canoe and boat-based visual surveys to map beaver distribution in the Jackfish creek area. 2. Collect drone-based imagery to further assess the occupancy of beavers in the area and capture imagery of local habitat to facilitate analysis of habitat selection (not in 2020). 3. Collect shrub core samples of both living shrubs and those cut by beavers to assess in what year beavers were present at a given locations (using dendrochronology) and analyse these data to ascertain occupancy history in different sites. 4. ... Show more
