Arkansas Tech University Online Research Commons @ ATU Theses and Dissertations from 2020 Student Research and Publications Summer 8-2020 The Impacts of Prescribed Burning and Mechanical Thinning on Insect Communities in the Arkansas Ozarks Aaron P. Tormanen Arkansas Tech University Follow this and additional works at: https://orc.library.atu.edu/etds_2020 Part of the Entomology Commons, and the Forest Biology Commons Recommended Citation Tormanen, Aaron P., "The Impacts of Prescribed Burning and Mechanical Thinning on Insect Communities in the Arkansas Ozarks" (2020). Theses and Dissertations from 2020. 9. https://orc.library.atu.edu/etds_2020/9 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Research and Publications at Online Research Commons @ ATU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations from 2020 by an authorized administrator of Online Research Commons @ ATU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE IMPACTS OF PRESCRIBED BURNING AND MECHANICAL THINNING ON INSECT COMMUNITIES IN THE ARKANSAS OZARKS By Aaron P. Tormanen Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of Arkansas Tech University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE SCIENCE August 2020 Thesis Approval This thesis, “The Impacts of Prescribe Burning and Mechanical Thinning on Insect Communities in the Arkansas Ozarks,” by Aaron Tormanen, is approved by: Thesis Advisor: _________________________________ Jorista Garrie, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Wildlife Science Thesis Committee _________________________________ Eric Lovely, Ph.D. Professor of Biology _________________________________ Roger Perry, Ph.D. Research Wildlife Biologist U.S. Forest Service _________________________________ Matthew Anderson, M.S.