Beavers and Botany

Background

A study of the effects of the introduction of beavers on botanical biodiversity. Beavers were reintroduced to the Spains Hall Estate in 2019 as part of a program of nature recovery and natural flood reduction. Since then the beavers have started a family and transformed their environment to suit their needs. Every year a botanical survey has been conducted to monitor how the botany of the beaver introduction site has been transformed under beaver management.

Objectives

  1. Evaluate techniques for monitoring the effects of beaver introductions.
  2. Create a model to predict the timeline for the effects of beaver introductions.
  3. Create an automated tool for predicting moisture and light levels from digital images.

Data and Analysis

This is an on going study and both the data and analysis in Open Source. You can take and look an run the analyses yourself on Gitpod.

Open in Gitpod

To use Rstudio run rserver in the VSCode terminal.