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    Tag:  spruce-fir forest

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    Michael Caterino

    Appalachia­n Litter Project seeks overlooked arthropods

    Posted on October 26, 2019October 17, 2019 by Daniel Walton

    In November, Michael Caterino of Clemson University and Paul Marek of Virginia Tech will start a three-year effort to catalog litter-dwelling arthropods — the biological group that includes such creatures as millipedes, spiders and beetles — on the high peaks of the southern Appalachians, including Mount Mitchell and Grandfather Mountain.

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    The cloud forest in our backyard

    Posted on April 20, 2018April 16, 2018 by Tal Galton

    “If you drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway, hike in Pisgah National Forest or on the Appalachian Trail, visit Mount Mitchell or the high elevations of the Smokies, you will find yourself in this forest, and you should know how singular it is.”

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