Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Virginia
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Virginia Project


Effects of Surveying and Habitat Characteristics of the Endangered Spruce-Fir Moss Spider

January 2016 - December 2018


Personnel

Participating Agencies

  • USFWS NC FO

Spruce-fir moss spider is restricted to a few high elevation forests with colluvial boulderfields in the southern Appalachians. Ongoing work is attempting to establish non-destructive habitat surveys and provide a robust predictive assessment of full distributional extent.