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Bits of mangrove tree debris and crab “droppings” that have accumulated in the mesh netting of a leaf litter collection plot at FCE-LTER site SRS-4.
Bits of mangrove tree debris and crab “droppings” that have accumulated in the mesh netting of a leaf litter collection plot at FCE-LTER site SRS-4.
Graduate student Paige Kleindl collects mangrove leaf litter that has fallen into a collection plot at FCE-LTER site SRS-4.
Spiderweb catching the sun’s morning rays at FCE-LTER site SRS-4. The silken strands refract the light into a kaleidoscope of color.
Spiny orbweaver spider (Gasteracantha cancriformis) suspended in the air at FCE-LTER site SRS-4.
Long-jawed orbweaver spider (cf. Leucauge mariana) with the sun shining through its body, suspended in its web in the mangrove forest at FCE-LTER site SRS-6.
Boating through the narrow Mangrove channels of Everglades National Park.
Boating across open water in Whitewater Bay.
A wall of mangrove roots line a canal bank in Everglades National Park.
Map of the Everglades, with a red line showing path traveled for the field day.
Alli Zahorec collecting data on prairie plants at the LTER MCSE
A fuelbreak in the black spruce forests. Fuelbreaks are great at preventing fires from spreading, but removing trees has serious ecological implications.
The author uses vegetation plots to study which species return first in cut Black Spruce forests.