Spider web distribution and characteristics in Dean Creek Marsh, Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA, October 2024

Salt marshes are a rare environment but are nonetheless home to many web-building spiders. This dataset describes a small-scale study of the distribution and sizes of webs in Dean Creek Marsh, located on the southern end of Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA. The study contained three components: A transect survey to understand the spatial distribution and density of spider webs among different vegetation types, a targeted search for webs to understand the population of webs in the region, and a sticky-trap study to investigate the prey abundance among vegetation types in the marsh.