Landscape Ecology of Wolf Spiders 

Clockwise from left top: agricultural landscape along the Indiana-Ohio border; Hogna helluo, one of the focal species; experimental soybean fields in 1996 with two experiments in place; experimental fields in 1997 with the destruction treatments (three large subplots) and fragmentation treatments (four subplots).  The results of these two last experiments are detailed in Marshall et al. 2006.

For my postdoc I studied the interactions of two wolf spider species in experimentally fragmented landscapes. The work was done at the Ecology Research Center of Miami University in soybean fields. The two spider species were Hogna helluo and Pardosa milvina.  My collaborators and I (Ann Rypstra, Sean Walker) found many surprising things about the ecology and behavior of these spiders (see publications).