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Ecosystem engineers are plants or animals that create, modify or maintain habitats. As Joshua Larsen, an associate professor at the University of Birmingham, explains, beavers are a perfect example of ...

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While this region is is getting a break in winter weather this month February, the beginning of the year brought some pretty ...

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