OpportunityTitle: Resilient Landscapes:  Forest thinning and fire impacts on wildlife-habitat interactions, Phase I:  Restoration effects on non-native invasive plant species.
Description: continuing the project on invasive plants in thinned and burned project areas, TTU will add an analysis of ant assemblages in these project areas. Ants are important dispersers and consumers of seeds of native and non-native plants, and understanding the presence of different ant species and colonies is an important facet of invasive plant ecology. Ant samples are being collected by NPS entomologists, and sorted in the laboratory. Sorted ant samples will be shipped to TTU and identified by ant specialists on campus. Data recorded will include ant species, site and trap number, collection date, and numbers of individuals of different ant castes (workers, soldiers, queens, etc.). Data sets and reports/analyses of the ant fauna, including a voucher reference collection of all species recorded, will be included in annual and final reports to NPS.
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GrantorContactText: Grants Management Officer Kelly Adams &lt;br/&gt;Kelly_Adams@nps.gov&lt;br/&gt;