Ngome Forest is situated to the east of Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Trees here grow up to 30m tall and include yellowwoods (Afrocarpus falcatus and Podocarpus latifolius), Natal hard pear (Olinia radiata), forest waterberry (Syzygium gerrardii), bastard stinkwood (Ocotea kenyensis), Terblanz beech (Faurea macnaughtonii) and green hazel (Trichocladus grandiflorus).
A survey of ground‐living spiders was conducted over a one‐year period at Ngome State Forest.
The ecotone consisted of a mixture of indigenous forest plants and pine trees.
However, variation in spider diversity within habitat types was considerable and an analysis of variance found no significant difference in mean values of spider diversity between habitat types.