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	Chilean Matorral -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Matorral is characterized by a temperate Mediterranean climate, with rainy winters and dry summers.
		The Chilean Coastal Range lies along the coast, and the Chilean Central Valley lies between the Coastal range and the Andes Mountains.
		The Matorral region has many (A plant that is native to a certain limited area) endemic plant species, with affinities to the South American tropics, the (additional info and facts about Antarctic flora) Antarctic flora, and the Andes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chilean_matorral.htm (325 words)

	Valdivian temperate rain forests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Valdivian temperate rain forests comprise a relatively narrow coastal strip between the Pacific Ocean to the west, and by the southern Andes Mountains to the east, from roughly 35º to 48º south latitude.
		To the north the Valdivian forests transition to Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub of the Chilean Matorral ecoregion.
		The temperate Valdivian, Matorral, and Magellanic ecoregions are isolated from the subtropical and tropical forests of northern South America by the Atacama desert north of the Matorral, the Andes mountains, and dry rain-shadow Argentine grasslands east of the Andes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valdivian_temperate_rain_forests (841 words)

	Chilean Matorral - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, Atacama, California, Mediterranean, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Chilean Matorral is a terrestrial ecoregion of central Chile, located on the west coast of South America.
		The Matorral occupies the coastal areas of central Chile between the Pacific Ocean and the high Andes Mountains.
		To the north is the extremely dry Atacama desert, which separates the Matorral from the tropical forests of northern South America.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Chilean_Matorral.html (337 words)

	WWF Global 200 Ecoregions -- Chilean Matorral (122)
		The Chilean Matorral ecoregion is one of only five Mediterranean shrublands of its kind that together support 20 percent of the plant species on Earth.
		In the middle of all this lies the Chilean Matorral, a densely vegetated ecoregion with a moderate climate.
		The primitive mouse opossum that lives in the Chilean Matorral is one of the species living today most closely related to possums that lived 70 million years ago.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/g200/g122.html (479 words)

	The Chilean Wine Palm
		The matorral and evergreen woodlands of central Chile where these palms grow are comparable in many respects to the chaparral and live oak woodlands of the Santa Monica Mountains.
		Chilean wine palms thrive in the mediterranean climates of southern California which are so much like their natural range in Chile.
		Whereas Chilean wine palm cannot be considered to be an endangered species, local conservation groups have taken a strong interest in recent years in promoting reforestation of these palms.
	www.botgard.ucla.edu /html/MEMBGNewsletter/Volume5number4/Thechileanwinepalm.html (1007 words)

	Pablo Marquet. Publicaciones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Feeding ecology of central Chilean foxes Dusicyon culpaeus and Dusicyon griseus.
		A long-term study of a small-mammal assemblage in the central Chilean matorral.
		Jaksic, F. [Comentario] "Assessment of the Chilean ornithology and compilation of the scientific literature published from 1970 to 1992" (de Lazo, I. and E. Silva).
	www.bio.puc.cl /fj_publica01.htm (5478 words)

	Bibliography on Coastal Sage Scrub Shrublands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hoffman, A. Morphology and histology of Trevoa trinervis (Rhamnaceae) - a drought deciduous shrub from the Chilean matorral.
		Satureja gilliesii, a poikilohydric shrub from Chilean Mediterranean vegetation.
		Nitrogen fixation by Trevoa trinervis (Rhamnaceae) in the Chilean matorral.
	www.dfg.ca.gov /nccp/pubs/oleary11.htm (598 words)

	Ecology: Patch utilization by three species of Chilean rodents differing in body size and mode of locomotion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this paper, I describe experiments on the foraging behavior of coexisting sigmodontine rodents (Muridae) from the Chilean matorral.
		The use of space by rodents in the Chilean matorral is also strongly influenced by the risk of predation (see Mooney 1977, Rundel 1981 for descriptions of the matorral region of central Chile).
		All matorral sigmodontines are primarily nocturnal (Iriarte et al.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2120/is_n8_v77/ai_19175814 (1340 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA44, Mediterranean Region and La Campana National Park, Chile
		Alpine-like vegetation, Nothofagus forest, hygrophilous forest, sclerophyllous forest, matorral, xerophytic spiny shrubland, bamboo thicket, palm forest.
		Matorral (picture) is variable in composition, and characterized by evergreen shrubs 1-3 m in height surrounded by a seasonal cover of herbaceous perennials (bulbs, ferns and vines) as well as some annuals (Rundel 1981).
		The matorral has many physiognomic and ecological similarities (at community to species levels) with the less diverse chaparral of southern California (Mooney 1977).
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa44.htm (3703 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Chilean matorral (NT1201)
		The Chilean matorral constitutes a 100 km-wide strip extending along the central part of the Chilean coast.
		About 95% of the plant species are Chilean endemic, including Gomortega keule, Pitavia punctata, Nothofagus alessandrii and Jubaea chilensis.
		The Chilean matorral has several threatened plant species; some endangered species are Adiantum gertrudis, Avellanita bustillosii and Beilschmiedia berteroana.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt1201_full.html (331 words)

	The Nature Conservancy in Chile - Nevados De Chillán Biological Corridor
		The concept of the Corridor is to connect existing reserves with a patchwork of private properties with varying levels of protection, but that all allow free movement of the area’s hundreds of flora and fauna species.
		The native altromeria flower (a species that has been domesticated and is widely sold in the United States for decorative use) sprinkles the forest floor in summer.The copihue, a climbing vine in the lily family, blooms in early fall to produce Chile’s national flower, a large red-petaled bell.
		The Chilean matorral (from the Spanish mata for shrub) is the only Mediterranean scrub in all of South America.
	nature.org /wherewework/southamerica/chile/work/art5115.html (1101 words)

	Rehabilitation Of Chile's Overgrazed, Overfarmed Espinales
		Their plan runs the gamut from restoration to reallocation: somewhat degraded matorral can be restored to healthy matorral; land that has been under cultivation for a long period of time can be reallocated (i.e., converted to a type of land use that may bear little resemblance to the original ecosystem) to agricultural use.
		However, Fuentes (1986) studied the natural recolonization and recovery of disturbed matorral vegetation and found both processes to be extremely slow, limited by, among other things, healthy populations of European rabbits.
		The authors mention that there is a Chilean law providing land managers with 75% of the cost of planting trees.
	horticulture.coafes.umn.edu /vd/h5015/96papers/blumenth.htm (2128 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Chilean matorral (NT1201) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Chilean Matorral ecoregion is a patchy mosaic of parks and agricultural areas interspersed among towns and cities.
		The Chilean Matorral is the only Mediterranean scrub ecoregion in all of South America, and it is one of only five such ecosystems in the world.
		The vegetation of the ecoregion is mostly made up of evergreen shrubs surrounded by a seasonal cover of herbaceous perennials (bulbs, ferns, and vines) and some annuals.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt1201.html (404 words)

	glossary of terms - mediterranean climate gardening throughout the world
		Dense vegetation in the coastal and mountainous regions of California, similar to the South African fynbos, the Chilean matorral, the Mediterranean maquis, and the Western Australian kwongan.
		Dense vegetation in the coastal and mountainous regions of South African, similar to the Californian chaparral, the Chilean matorral, the Mediterranean maquis, and the Western Australian kwongan.
		Mediterranean Basin vegetation similar to California's chaparral, Chile's matorral, South Africa's fynbos, and the Western Australian kwongan.
	www.mediterraneangardensociety.org /glossary.cfm (1278 words)

	Southern California Botanists
		Striking similarities exist in shrub morphology, phenology and ecophysiology between chaparral species in California and matorral species in Chile, as well as in comparisons between drought-deciduous shrubs and succulents in coastal sage scrub and coastal matorral.
		One such difference lies with the virtual absence of fire as a natural process in Chilean matorral due to the protective role that the high Andean Cordillera plays in preventing the westward flow of summer thunderstorms from the east.
		A lack of specialized fire-following annuals and obligate fire-stimulated seed germination in shrub species in the Chilean matorral, as well as the abundance of large succulent species, has resulted from the removal of fire as a selective force.
	www.socalbot.org /symposia/1998.php (964 words)

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		Ecophysiological plasticity and habitat distribution in three evergreen sclerophyllous shrubs of the Chilean matorral.
		Kummerow-J; Avila-G; Aljaro-ME; Araya-S; Montenegro-G. Effect of fertilizer on fine root density and shoot growth in Chilean matorral.
		The fine root density (root diameter less than 2 mm) was highest in late spring and lowest in late summer.
	www.cof.orst.edu /coops/ntc/taiwan/citation/cryp3z.doc (605 words)

	Landscape ecology of a fragmented habitat: the case of the ruil forest in Chile.
		The Chilean economy is an open one, with exports of products and services as a mayor commodity, including forest products.
		In fact, 52% of Chilean threatened species of vertebrates and vascular plants are from temperate regions, including endemic species such as Gomortega keule, the single species representative of the Gomortegaceae family.
		This challenge, faced by many species, is a challenge to the forest industry and conservationists in order to agree in land management practices suitable to ensure both the development and economic success of forest plantations and the maintenance of the Chilean natural heritage (Simonetti 1997).
	www.brocku.ca /epi/lebk/grez.html (5682 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub
		After European colonization of these regions, fires were suppressed, which has caused some unintended consequences in these ecoregions; fuel builds up, so that when fires do come they are much more devastating, and some species dependent on fire for their reproduction are now threatened.
		Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Shrub ecoregions are often home to dense thickets of evergreen sclerophyll shrubs and small trees, called Chaparral, Matorral, Maquis, or Garrique.
		In some places Chaparral is the natural vegetation type, and in other places the result of degradation of former forest or woodland by logging or overgrazing.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mediterranean_Forests,_Woodlands,_and_Scrub (678 words)

	Conservatory of Flowers: Education
		They also extend into montane, cloud forest and savanna habitats, with outliers in warm deserts, subtropical and temperate forests, and even mediterranean-climate habitats.
		A renowned specimen of the rare Chilean Wine palm, Jubaea chilensis, native to the central Chilean matorral, grows across John F. Kennedy Drive from Fuchsia Dell Drive.
		The species is known for having the thickest trunk of all palms.
	www.conservatoryofflowers.org /education/palms.htm (944 words)

	The chaparral vegetation in Mexico undernonmediterranean climate: the convergence and Madrean-Tethyan ...
		Californian chaparral, 13 for the Chilean matorral, 24 for theMediterranean
		Chilean matorral (100 ± 15species), and the prevalence
		Arroyo,J. Fenología de la floración enespecies del matorral del sur de España.
	www.amjbot.org /cgi/content/full/85/10/1398 (4597 words)

	Brown University: Environmental Change Initiative
		Two decades ago, Charley and West, (1975) introduced the term islands of fertility to describe the accumulation of nutrients underneath the canopy of shrubs in the semi-desert of Utah.
		Similarly, in the Chilean matorral, the concentration of soil nitrogen, phosphorus, and soil organic matter were higher underneath than outside the canopies of shrubs (Gutierrez et al.
		Smaller individuals such as those of the grass species Bouteloua gracilis were able to significantly modify the concentration of nitrogen and carbon underneath their canopies (Hook et al.
	www.brown.edu /Research/ECI/people/sala/research/vege.htm (1143 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Among the four forested MHTs (tropical areas because of bioclimatic factors, soils, hydro- moist broadleaf forests, tropical dry broadleaf for- graphic conditions, or isolation by physical barriers ests, temperate forests, and tropical and subtropical such as large rivers or mountain ranges.
		Such for- coniferous forests), tropical dry broadleaf forests are mations are considered as a single unit for the pur- clustered around the smallest size categories and poses of this analysis if they are geographically temperate forests-except for the Chilean winter- clustered (e.g., Tepuis) or maintain some level of rain forests-among the larger units.
		Chilean matorral -Chile chaparral -Mexico, USA (C.Andes) Outstanding (.eio Regionally Outstanding Bioregionally Outstanding Locally Important [Z Level 1: Highest Priority at Regional Scale for biodiversity conservation z P,4 0-) "4 0 a1 Table 5-11.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1995/09/01/000009265_3961219113255/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt (12914 words)

	Chaparral Biome
		LOCATION: The chaparral biome is found in small sections of most continents, including the west coast of the United States, the west coast of South America, the Cape Town area of South Africa, the western tip of Australia and the coastal areas of the Mediterranean.
		In Europe it is called the maquis, Australia has the mallee, Chile the matorral, and South Africa calls it fynbos.
		It is also called the Mediterranean Forest, Woodland, and Scrub biome.
	www.nceas.ucsb.edu /nceas-web/kids/biomes/chaparral.htm (527 words)

	Ecology: The interplay of facilitation and competition in plant communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shrub clumps of the Chilean matorral vegetation: structure and possible maintenance mechanisms.
		Huston, M. The effect of soil nutrients and light on tree growth and interactions during tropical forest succession: experiments in Costa Rica.
		Soil water improvement by trees in the rangelands of southern Spain.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2120/is_n7_v78/ai_20417920/pg_5 (802 words)

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		1 of 4 TI: Ecophysiological plasticity and habitat distribution in three evergreen sclerophyllous shrubs of the Chilean matorral.
		Nitrogen enhanced shoot biomass and sylleptic shoot development; P enhanced fruit production.
		DE: Shrubs-; nitrogen-fertilizers; roots-; phosphorus-fertilizers; responses-; density- GE: Chile- BT: woody-plants; Spermatophyta; plants; fertilizers; South-America; America CC: JJ700; PP720 CD: Fertilizers-and-other-Amendments; Biological-Resources-Plant PT: Journal-article UD: 950916 AN: 841986393 4 of 4 TI: Seasonal water stress in some Chilean matorral shrubs.
	www.cof.orst.edu /coops/ntc/taiwan/citation/cryp3.doc (504 words)

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		The major vegetation type is scrubland with Peumo Cryptocarya alba, Boldo Peumus boldus, Radal Lomatia hirsuta, and Winter's Bark Drimys winteri.
		The area harbours one of the two relict stands of Chilean Palm Jubaea chilensis (V) of Chile.
		Noteworthy birds are Grey Buzzard-eagle Geranoetus melanoleucus, Red-backed Buzzard Buteo polyosoma, Great Horned-owl Bubo virginianus, Common Diuca Finch Diuca diuca, and Chilean Mockingbird Mimus thenca.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/lacampan.htm (252 words)

	Animal Info - Chile
		Threatened Species: The following list includes all mammals which occur in Chile and are rated as Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN) or Vulnerable (VU) in the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.
		South Andean Deer (or Chilean Huemul) (Hippocamelus bisulcus).
		Chile contains the Atacama Desert and Chilean Matorral Global 200 Ecoregions as well as portions of the Valdivian Temperate Rainforests, Patagonian Steppe and Grasslands, High Andean Lakes, Peru Current, and Magellanic Marine Ecosystems Global 200 Ecoregions
	www.animalinfo.org /country/chile.htm (316 words)

	GCRG Personnel - Stephen W. Roberts
		Steve received his Ph.D. training under Boyd Strain and Ken Knoerr at Duke University.
		Since completing his degree he has been involved in field research in diverse biomes including Alaskan tundra, southeastern US deciduous forest, California chaparral, Chilean matorral, Iceland, and Costa Rican moist tropics.
		His research interests have centered around photosynthetic and water relations adaptations of plants to environment, and in the instrumentation required to study these areas.
	www.sci.sdsu.edu /GCRG/personnel/roberts/roberts.html (136 words)

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