World Species : Castor fiber (European beaver)

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Castor fiber (European beaver)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Eurasian beaver or European beaver (Castor fiber) is a species of beaver which was once widespread in Eurasia. It was hunted to near-extinction for both its fur and castoreum; and by 1900, only 1200 beavers survived in eight relict populations in Europe and Asia. Reintroduced through much of its former range, it now occurs from Great Britain to China and Mongolia, although it is absent from Italy, Portugal, the southern Balkans, and the Middle East.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 40.64

EDGE Score: 3.73

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Attributes

Gestation ^[2]	3 months 15 days
Litter Size ^[2]	3
Litters / Year ^[2]	1
Maximum Longevity ^[4]	35 years
Nocturnal ^[1]	Yes
Water Biome ^[1]	Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Weaning ^[2]	76 days

Adult Weight ^[2]	55.116 lbs (25.00 kg)
Birth Weight ^[2]	1.168 lbs (530 g)

Diet ^[3]	Herbivore
Diet - Plants ^[3]	100 %
Forages - Ground ^[3]	100 %

Female Maturity ^[2]	1 year 9 months
Male Maturity ^[2]	1 year 9 months

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alps conifer and mixed forests	Italy, France, Switzerland, Slovenia	Palearctic	Temperate Coniferous Forests
Baltic mixed forests	Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Poland	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Cantabric Coast - Languedoc	France, Spain	Palearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Central & Western Europe	Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom	Palearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Central European mixed forests	Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Moldovia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Dniester - Lower Danube	Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine	Palearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
East European forest steppe	Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
East Siberian taiga	Russia	Palearctic	Boreal Forests/Taiga
Kazakh forest steppe	Russia, Kazakhstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Kola Peninsula tundra	Russia	Palearctic	Tundra
Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests	France, Spain	Palearctic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Northern Baltic Drainages	Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden	Palearctic	Polar Freshwaters
Norwegian Sea Drainages	Norway, Sweden	Palearctic	Polar Freshwaters
Pontic steppe	Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Sarmatic mixed forests	Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Sayan Alpine meadows and tundra	Mongolia, Russia	Palearctic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Sayan montane conifer forests	Mongolia, Russia	Palearctic	Temperate Coniferous Forests
Scandinavian and Russian taiga	Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia	Palearctic	Boreal Forests/Taiga
Scandinavian Montane Birch forest and grasslands	Norway, Sweden, Finland	Palearctic	Tundra
South Siberian forest steppe	Russia	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Baltic Lowlands	Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia	Palearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Upper Danube	Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland	Palearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Ural montane forests and tundra	Russia	Palearctic	Boreal Forests/Taiga
West Siberian taiga	Russia	Palearctic	Boreal Forests/Taiga
Western European broadleaf forests	Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Western Siberian hemiboreal forests	Russia	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Mediterranean Basin	Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey	No

Consumers

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ ²de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ ³Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ ⁴Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ ⁵Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0