The Terrestrial Food Web Dynamics Project is a partnership between Oregon State University and the US Forest Service. We began our wildlife research during the spring of 2017 to help us understand interactions among small carnivores, their prey, and their predators/competitors in the Oregon Cascades. Most of our research is conducted in the Oregon Cascades at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest (HJA), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site. Specific objectives of the project are outlined below:

 

1. Use radio-telemetry to help determine causes of death in small carnivores & estimate survival rates.

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2. Use radio-telemetry to locate and describe rest and den site locations of western spotted skunks.

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3. Develop a better understanding of the seasonality of the diet of carnivores in the Oregon Cascades using new genetic technology.

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4. Test micro-GPS technology in old growth forests.

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