The effects of livestock grazing and climate variation on vegetation and grasshopper communities in the northern Chihuahuan Desert
Grasshoppers are important herbivores of North American semi-arid grasslands and shrublands, and vegetation and climate are key factors controlling their species compositions and population dynamics. Domestic livestock grazing is a historic and a current landscape-scale ecological perturbation that...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2018-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Orthoptera Research |
Online Access: | https://jor.pensoft.net/article/19945/ |