The National Ecological Observatory Network (or NEON for short) just released a blog post about some of the work that we have been doing over the past two years. In it, they describe what we are up to (like the above image of how we sample 1-m² plots for ants) and some things still to do (e.g. sorting pitfall traps from NEON sites over the past few years).
Click for more information: http://www.neonscience.org/observatory/observatory-blog/researchers-leverage-neon-field-sites-find-out-what-ants-can-tell-us
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