Meredith Root-Bernstein

mrootbernstein

Chile

Department of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Post Doctoral Fellow

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Published on Jun 30, 2014

New blog

Hello everyone.  The experiment has started, and I have a new blog.  Please follow our progress here:  http://degusyguanacos.wordpress.comSee the latest post, when I visit the guanacos in the field...

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Published on Dec 01, 2013

The fence!!

Construction of the fence is making amazing progress! See what you funded!Pictures from Andrés González. You can also see how the green part of the landscape moves from the grasses and herbs, whi...

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Published on Nov 17, 2013

Gracias!

Thanks to everyone who helped us reach our funding goal! I might get some press coverage this week, unfortunately a bit late for the fundraising, but nice nonetheless. I will put up links to any a...

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Published on Nov 16, 2013

Last steps: measuring trees

We have reached our funding target! That means we can go ahead with the project on time!Just to catch you up with what we have been doing in the field to get ready, here I'll show you a few pictur...

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Published on Nov 13, 2013

Guanacos as flagship species for central Chile!

This week I have been meeting with Adrien Lindon, who as I mentioned before did his MSc dissertation on Chilean attitudes to guanaco reintroductions. We were planning how to write up his dissertat...

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Published on Nov 07, 2013

Camera trapping!

I wanted to continue describing how we chose our research site. We liked the private reserve Altos de Cantillana because both the owner, Joaquín Solo de Zaldivar, and the administrator, Fernanda Ro...

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Published on Nov 03, 2013

Guest post! Rewilding: the future of conservation?

In order to put the guanaco rewilding project in context, I asked my colleague Dr. Richard Ladle (Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, and Oxford University) to write a guest post based on some r...

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Published on Oct 31, 2013

Visit to Proyecto Wanaku!

While talking to people in Chile about our project, we heard that there was a place on Ruta 5 (the highway going north from Santiago) where there were already guanacos in espinal. Intrigued, we lo...

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Published on Oct 30, 2013

Biodiversity of central Chile

Today I wanted to give some background on the diversity of habitats and species where this project is taking place.Central Chile, the mediterranean-climate zone of South America (one of 5 in the wo...

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