Terrestrial invertebrate organisms found in litter of maple hardwood, red pine, and grass during winter.

Abstract

A winter environment contains many varied habitats which are challenging to study, not the least of which is the leaf litter habitat, the focus of this project and report. In taking specimens from three basic litter areas, including hardwood forest floor, pine forest floor, and grassland, there are many angles from which the kinds and numbers of terrrestrial invertebrate organisms present may be studied. This project was designed to be a very basic sample and information gathering process from which some conclusions might be drawn between inhabitants of summer and winter litter in general., also summer and winter inhabitants of litter of the same type, accompanied by another goal of comparing differences between inhabitants of hardwood, pine, and grassland litter in the winter months.