PowerPoint Presentations

Here you will find PDFs of most of the oral powerpoint presentations given at the symposium. Some oral presentations were three minute speed talks, some were full thirteen minute talks.

The presentations are listed by presenter name. Many had co-authors from multiple organisations; full details can be found in the symposium’s Book of Abstracts.

We’ve also included the presentation titles from the Book of Abstracts to help with cross-checking, though some PDF slides may have modified titles.

Hood, Glynnis

• Welcome from Scientific Committee by Glynnis Hood

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Andison, Elly (Environment Agency, England)

• A mitigation resource for the engineering community

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Boucher, Bob (Superior Bio Conservancy, Canada)

• Leveraging hyperspectral data to model carbon storage in North American beaver (Castor canadensis) influenced watersheds of the Laurentian Forest Province

Bradbury, Gareth (University of Exeter, England)

• Beaver wetlands mediate diffuse water pollution in agriculturally dominated catchments

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Campbell, Roo (NatureScot, Scotland)

• Beaver burrowing activity along the River Isla in Scotland

Campbell-Palmer, Roisin (Beaver Trust, Scotland)

• Survival of wild beavers (Castor fiber) translocated for human-wildlife conflict mitigation in Britain

Chant, Jake (Natural England, England)

• Stakeholder engagement and knowledge sharing in England

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Denton, Martha (University of Minnesota, USA)

• Incorporating human-beaver conflict potential into urban beaver restoration models

Dijkstra, Vilmar (Dutch Mammal Society, Netherlands)

• Keeping The Netherland dry, part 2

Diserens, Tom. A. (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

• How do wolves and humans shape beaver spatial behaviour and ecosystem impacts in Białowieża Primeval Forest?

Dunleavy, Callum (University of Stirling, Scotland)

• 20 years of rewilding: Beavers increase biodiversity at the landscape

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Fairfax, Emily (University of Minnesota, USA)

• Beaver-driven wildfire resistance: Generalizability, mechanisms, and predictability

Fogg, Barnaby (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)

• “Gnawing concerns are not going away” - a media analysis of beaver reintroductions to the Scottish Cairngorms National Park

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Galvez-Bravo, Lucia (Liverpool John Moores University, England)

• Spatio-temporal trends in vertebrate biodiversity following a beaver (Castor fiber) reintroduction in Cheshire, UK

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Halley, Duncan (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research)

• Population and distribution of Eurasian beavers

Hökby, Lovisa (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)

• Are beavers a zoonotic risk? Assessing pathogens in Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) and beaver wetlands

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Jurj, Ramon  (National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry “Marin Drăcea” Romania)

• Interaction between the eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) and the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the marshy zone of the Prejmer Forest Protected Area (ROSCI0170), Romania

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Kachamakova, Maria (Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

• First insights into the origin and distribution of the newly established beaver populations in Bulgaria via eDNA

Kennedy, Jordan 

• Building like beavers. Stigmeric robotics for landscape design

Kinas, Holly (Miistakis Institute, Canada)

• Working with Beavers in Alberta, Canada: beneficial management practices for beaver coexistence

Krause, Felix (University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, Germany)

• Influences of beavers (Castor fiber) on the spawning dynamics of trout (Salmo trutta) in the North German lowlands – Part 1: Evaluation of spawning dynamics based on abiotic factors and habitat conditions

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Larsen, Annegret (Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands)

• Beavers banking on carbon: Drivers of carbon storage across annual and decadal scales in a Swiss beaver wetland

Law, Alan (University of Stirling, Scotland)

• Transforming landscapes through rewilding: Beavers enhance biodiversity and ecosystem function

Lodberg-Holm, Hanna Kavli (University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway)

• A home for the many? Beaver lodges as hotspots for bird and mammal diversity

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Macarthur, James (UHI Inverness, Scotland)

• Catchment-scale eDNA sampling reveals effects of beaver recolonization on the distribution of migratory fish

Mayer, Martin (University of Inland Norway, Norway)

• Seasonal and daily variation in body temperature and heart rate of the Eurasian beaver

Menke, Kurt (Septima, USA)

• Managing beavers at the watershed level: Combining riparian habitat connectivity, potential beaver population, beaver recovery zones and intuitive GIS/GPS field data collection

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Needham, Robert (University of Southampton/Beaver Trust, England)

• The impact of reintroduced Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) dams on the upstream movement of brown trout (Salmo trutta) in upland areas of Great Britain

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Ode, Torsten (Natura et Cultura - office for environmental planning and environmental education, Germany)

• Influences of beavers (Castor fiber) on the spawning dynamics of trout (Salmo trutta) in the North German lowlands - Part 2: Migratory behaviour of sea trout (Salmo trutta trutta) at beaver dams

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Pizzi, Romain (Five Sisters Zoo, Scotland)

• Disease prevalence in wild beavers (Castor fiber) in Britain

Plichard, Laura (Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), France)

• Long term local and regional colonization patterns of European beavers in France

Polman, Elze (Dutch Mammal Society, Netherlands)

• A dam good network: Creating the International Beaver Knowledge Hub

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Shockey, Jakob (Project Beaver, USA)

• Lawyers, guns and money: Helping beavers with sticks and carrots?

Simpson, Emily (University of Stirling, Scotland)

• Pond-ering carbon: The storage of sediment and carbon by beavers

Sloan, Harris (University of Montana, USA)

• Harnessing machine learning for long-term monitoring of beaver dams in satellite imagery

Spencer, Tom (University of Hull, England)

• Evaluating biodiversity impacts of beavers on invertebrate and vertebrate communities using environmental DNA

Stoll, Nichole-Lynn (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

• Under pressure: Quantifying the hydraulic stability of beaver dams

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Tape, Ken D. (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA)

• Arctic Beaver Observation Network and the future of lowland tundra ecosystems

Taylor, Helen (Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Scotland)

• The genetic legacy of the first successful reintroduction of a mammal to Britain: Founder events and attempted genetic rescue in Scotland’s beaver population

Timm, Bridgette (University of Minnesota, USA)

• Twin Cities Beaver Project: Population and distribution in the Mississippi National River and Recreational Area

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VanBuren, Collin (Virginia Museum of Natural History, USA)

• Mapping beaver contributions to ecosystem services priorities across sectors and scales

Vorel, Aleš (CZU Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)

• Beavers and wolves: Renewing an old relationship (key study from Central Europe)

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Ward, Sophie (Altenburg & Wymenga Ecological Research LLC, Netherlands)

• Modelling habitat suitability and carrying capacity for European beaver (Castor fiber) in a highly modified lowland landscape

Wartmann, Flurina (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)

• Are beavers making a mess of scenic landscapes? Beaver reintroductions and contested landscape aesthetics.

Wenfei, Liao, (University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Beavers (Castor spp.) as a tool to enhance biodiversity across multiple taxa

Westbrook, Cherie (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

• Under pressure: Quantifying the hydraulic stability of beaver dams

White, Heather (Natural England, England)

• Developing a new mapping tool to assess beaver impacts: The Beaver Impact Assessment Toolkit (BIAT)

Willby, Nigel (University of Stirling, Scotland)

• A perpetual state of flux? Twenty years of vegetation dynamics in beaver wetlands and what they tell us

Willet, Jonathan (Cairngorms National Park Authority, Scotland)

• Monitoring beaver impacts on habitats and species to inform delivery of mitigation