How beavers affect climate change Bashny.Net

Beavers are quite similar to humans in the sense that it is also transforming the environment. They felled trees and build dams blocking the rivers, and thereby greatly alter the world. Yes, beavers are partly responsible even for climate change.



New experiments suggests that beaver dams and sediment that can accumulate behind them, absorb the carbon that is at the time deprived of the atmosphere of a small number of greenhouse gases. When the animals leave their homes, carbon back, which leads to global warming.
Of all the so-called beaver meadows occupy about a quarter of the total length of major rivers in these basins.
As the dams of beavers, the water level increases, the oxygen can't get into most of the wood and other organic substances in bottom sediments, so they decompose slowly. Tree in beaver meadows can lie close 600 years longer than in a normal forest. But when the water level falls and the soil dries out, due to the decomposition of organic matter in the atmosphere releases carbon dioxide.





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