Field Course


Experimental Intertidal Ecology

Universidad Austral de Chile (Valdivia, Chile)

November 2013


Mussel-seastar system from the NE Pacific coast

Steps of the scientific method

Paper by Underwood (1991)

Example of mensurative and manipulative experimental approaches

Paper by Watt & Scrosati (2013)

Paper by Sagarin & Pauchard (2010)




From left to right: Moisés Aguilera, Mauricio Oróstica, Nelson Valdivia, Paulina Arancibia,
Ricardo Scrosati, Markus Molis, Patricia Carbajal, Andrés González, Sebastián López, María Rosa Flores.