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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Methods
  • Study areas
  • Sampling protocol
• Results
  • Taxonomic structure
  • Similarity Analyses
  • Trophic Structure
• Discussion
• Acknowledgments
• Literature Cited

• Table 1 -- Number of families, species, and total number of individuals for each order, as well as proportion of unique species, species diversity, and equitability in eight study sites in coastal prairie.
• Table 2 -- Number of families, species, and total number of individuals for each order, as well as proportion of unique species, species diversity, and equitability in eight study sites in central prairie.
• Table 3 -- Maximally nonsignificant subsets of sites identified by log-likelihood ratio tests for the central prairie.
• Table 4 -- Number of species and percent of total fauna in each trophic level for all study sites in coastal prairie.
• Table 5 -- Number of species and percent of total fauna in each trophic level for all study sites in central prairie.
• Table 6 -- Maximally nonsignificant subsets for trophic categories among sites identified by log-likelihood ratio tests for central prairie.
• Table 7 -- Maximally nonsignificant subsets of trophic categories between central and coastal prairie.

• Figure 1 -- Dendogram displaying results of cluster analysis of the similarity matrix among sites based upon sweep samples in coastal prairie.
• Figure 2 -- Dendogram displaying results of cluster analysis of the similarity matrix among sites based upon sweep samples in central prairie.