Graduate Student Sought for Long-term Research Program on Small Mammal Ecology in Chile, S.A.

I am seeking seek a graduate student to interface with data from a long-term ecological project in north-central Chile. With over 20 years of monthly surveys of small mammals at a series of trapping grids that have been subjected to biotic manipulations including exclusion of predators (aerial and terrestrial), key competitors, lagomorphs, or all small mammals (for vegetative responses), and complementary data on predators (diets and indices of monthly activity), plants (shrubs as well as annuals) and climatic measurements (weather station on site), this study provides a unique opportunity for long-term demographic analyses and complementary studies on behavioral ecology as well as community and ecosystem scale analyses. The successful candidate will be given flexibility in developing graduate research but this will expected to either use data from this site or to involve independent field research at the site.

Interested students will need to apply to the Graduate Group in Ecology, an umbrella organization including over many dozens of faculty from numerous departments across campus, and 200 or so dynamic and interactive students. See http://ecology.ucdavis.edu/ – note that deadlines for 2011 admission are due by 15 December 2010.

Dr. Douglas A. Kelt

Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology

One Shields Avenue

University of California

Davis, CA 95616 - USA

TE: 1-503-754-0145

FAX: 1-530-752-4154 e-mail: dakelt@ucdavis.edu