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Type: Thesis
Author(s): Michael E. Vickers
Publication Date: 2003

Prescribed burning and mechanical thinning are common forest-management practices. During 2002, pitfall traps were used in upstate South Carolina to sample spider populations to determine if the forest-management practices of burning and thinning led to changes in population levels.

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Citation: Vickers, Michael E. 2003. Spider (Araneae) responses to fuel reduction in a Piedmont forest in upstate South Carolina. M.S. Thesis. Clemson, SC: Department of Entomology, Clemson University. 115 p.

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  • Araneae
  • entomology
  • FFS - Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
  • Piedmont
  • pitfall trapping
  • South Carolina
  • spiders
JFSP Project Number(s):
  • 99-S-01
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FRAMES Record Number: 848