Grasshopper food habits within a shrub-steppe community
Authors:
- 31 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Oecologia
- Vol. 32 (1) , 85-92
Abstract
Results from a dietary analysis of eight grasshopper species inhabiting a shrub-steppe community in southeastern Washington showed that 15 vascular plant species served as food items. Several plant species occurred at higher frequencies in the diet samples than in the plant community. Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) was the most frequently selected plant species, followed by turpentine cymopterus (Cymopterus terebinthinus), green rabbitbrush (Chrysothammus viscidiflorus), and Carey's balsamroot (Balsamorhiza careyana).Keywords
This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
- Diets of black-tailed hares on the Hanford Reservation1975
- Characterization of plant communities adjacent to the B-C Cribs controlled area and REDOX pond areas on the 200 area plateau1975
- Influence of Plant Frequency and Certain Morphological Variations on Diets of Rangeland GrasshoppersJournal of Range Management, 1972
- Dietary overlap of grasshoppers on sandhill rangeland in northeastern ColoradoOecologia, 1971
- Food Selection by GrasshoppersAnnual Review of Entomology, 1967
- Acridoidea of Southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Orthoptera)Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 1958