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Ecol Evol. 2017 Dec 12;8(2):997-1008. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3726. eCollection 2018 Jan.

Diving behavior in a free-living, semi-aquatic herbivore, the Eurasian beaver .

Ecology and evolution

Patricia Maria Graf, Rory Paul Wilson, Lea Cohen Sanchez, Klaus Hacklӓnder, Frank Rosell

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna Austria.
  2. Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences University College of Southeast Norway Telemark Norway.
  3. Biosciences College of Science Swansea University Swansea UK.
  4. Institute of Geography School of Geoscience University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK.

PMID: 29375773 PMCID: PMC5773300 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3726

Abstract

Semi-aquatic mammals have secondarily returned to the aquatic environment, although they spend a major part of their life operating in air. Moving both on land, as well as in, and under water is challenging because such species are considered to be imperfectly adapted to both environments. We deployed accelerometers combined with a depth sensor to study the diving behavior of 12 free-living Eurasian beavers

Keywords: Castor fiber; Eurasian beaver; VeDBA; diving depth; herbivore; semi‐aquatic

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