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.