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SUBMITTER: Butler A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7790617 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Butler Anna A Davis Craig A CA Fuhlendorf Samuel D SD Wilder Shawn M SM
Ecology and evolution 20201207 1
Arthropods are abundant and diverse animals in many terrestrial food webs. In western Oklahoma, some shrublands are interspersed with discrete, dense thickets of tall, woody vegetation, known as mottes. Some of these shrublands are managed with prescribed burning. The goal of this study was to examine whether prescribed burning interacted with habitat type (i.e., shrubland versus mottes) to affect ground-dwelling arthropod communities. Arthropods were collected in pitfall traps at four sampling ...[more]