Role of Predation and Plant-Small Mammal Interaction in     Chilean Mediterranean Scrub Zone
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Previous studies of Chilean mediterranean-type ecosystems                  have suggested a major role for predation, and plant-animal                     interactions in structuring small mammal assemblages, and in                    community level interactions.  However, few long-term or                        carefully replicated field experiments have been conducted in                   temperate Neotropics, and such studies are needed to assess the                 generality of patterns elucidated largely from Northern                         Hemispheric communities.  This research will investigate the                    specific effects of major predator groups on small mammals, and                 the evidence for significant plant-small mammal interactions in                 a semi-arid mediterranean community in a Chilean national park                  which has received considerable previous effort on small mammal                 population dynamics, resource partitioning patterns, predator                   diets, and floristic associations.  Replicated fenced and/or net-               covered exclosures permeable to small mammals, and small mammal-                proof exclosures will be used to assess predation impace, and                   consumer effects, respectively,  In addition to moitoring of                    direct effects, the evidence for changes in small mammal foraging               patterns and habitat utilization will be assessed.  Detectable                  responses to predator, and small mammal exclusion are expected to               be rapid, and the proposed work will be among the first such                    large scale studies of these processes in temperate Neotropical                 small mammals.
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