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  1. Abstract: The highest elevations of the southern Appalachians host a distinct type of forest, and with that comes a distinctive arthropod fauna. The arthropod species living in the leaf litter of the forest floor are particularly diverse, with numerous high elevation endemics. Yet, most of the litter fauna has received little taxonomic attention. We have intensively sampled and thoroughly DNA barcoded these arthropod communities, and have found that each peak tends to host a highly distinctive community, with a third or more of the species endemic to a site. Comparing communities from four peaks in the Smokies to other high elevation sites in the southern Appalachians reveals more than half of the litter arthropod species to be found nowhere else. 
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