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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David C. Lightfoot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Orthoptera Research
Online Access:https://jor.pensoft.net/article/19945/