The initiative will develop a prototype of camera traps to estimate the rate of diurnal and nocturnal pollinators and record environmental data in an avocado orchard of the company Agrícola Fundo Bucalemu Ltda. in the commune of Santo Domingo
The study will provide information on the current status of these biodiversity reservoirs in the sectors near Anglo American's Los Bronces operation and define actions to continue protecting the biological diversity and ecosystem of the site
The academic will observe the problem in the field and study the samples through phylogenetic analysis.
Through this initiative, land use and land use change maps will be prepared for the regions of Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama and Aysén
The project, financed by Syngenta, aims to define annual plant species mixtures that favor functional insect biodiversity in European hazelnut crops in south-central Chile