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From tortoises to termites: The untapped potential of species-led ecosystem restoration
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From tortoises to termites: The untapped potential of species-led ecosystem restoration
How can human labour compete with a species that’s quite literally evolved to engineer an ecosystem? And more importantly, why would we want to?
Giving a dam about beavers
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Giving a dam about beavers
Beavers are one of the most influential and critical ecosystem engineers on Earth.
Ecosystem engineer explained
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Ecosystem engineer explained
An ecosystem engineer is a species that creates, modifies, maintains or destroys an ecosystem.