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University of Oklahoma ecologist Michael Kaspari samples the ants from a plot at the Ordway Swisher NEON site.

August 9, 2017

Ecologist Michael Kaspari will study ground-dwelling arthropod communities at a continental scale.

University of Oklahoma ecologist Michael Kaspari samples the ants from a plot at the Ordway Swisher NEON site. These samples, combined with the insects collected from pitfall trap network across NEON,will be used to greatly expand NEON's invertebrate data-reach, toward testing how the diversity, abundance, and activity of soil invertebrates varies with changing temperature, precipitation, and soil chemistry.

Credit: Michael Kaspari, University of Oklahoma. Photograph by Deborah Kaspari.

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