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From: Expanding beaver pond distribution in Arctic Alaska, 1949 to 2019

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Beaver colonization and engineering in tundra. 1980 color infrared aerial photography and 2019 Worldview satellite image (© 2022 Maxar, Inc.) showing construction of beaver dams and formation of ponds along a tundra stream near the treeline on the Seward Peninsula. Blue arrow indicates stream flow direction; black ponds are all bound by dams on the downstream ends; white arrows denote some prominent ones.

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