Location: Pest Management Research
Project Number: 3032-21220-003-015-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Aug 13, 2025
End Date: Aug 12, 2026
Objective:
Objectives of research include (1) determining if season of prescribed burn alters spider abundance and overall communities and (2) how different grazing regimes affect spider communities
Approach:
Cooperator will identify spiders from pitfall traps, pan traps, and sweep nets that were collected within experimental rangeland plots that have had prescribed fire applied within different seasons and areas that have had different grazing pressure (e.g., cattle, bison, prairie dog). Cooperator will sort, curate, and identify all spiders from the different experimental plots and analyze all data collected.