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How often are ecosystems top‐down controlled? Experiments in grassland, grasshopper, and bird systems over time and space [PDF]
EcosphereEcosystems are frequently considered to be controlled by predation (top‐down). Experiments examined this in four bird/spider/grasshopper/prairie habitats over 34 years, employing in each habitat three 100 m2 bird exclosures and controls (121 habitat/year
Gary E. Belovsky, Jennifer B. Slade
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Climate Change and Herbivores: Forty Years in a Bunchgrass Prairie [PDF]
AnimalsWild herbivore responses to anthropogenic climate change are often projected to be habitat and geographic range shifts as warmer conditions reduce the quantity and nutritional quality of forage plants, which makes species presence/absence a focus.
Gary E. Belovsky, Jennifer B. Slade
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Perception and knowledge of grasshoppers among indigenous communities in tropical forest areas of southern Cameroon: Ecosystem conservation, food security, and health [PDF]
Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2021 The increased attention given to health, food security, and biodiversity conservation in recent years should bring together conventional scientists and indigenous people to share their knowledge systems for better results.
Charly Oumarou Ngoute +2 more
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Annual temperature, body size, and sexual size dimorphism in the evolution of Pyrgomorphidae [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionIn many animal species, larger body size is positively correlated with male mating success and female fecundity. However, in the case of insects, in high seasonality environments, natural selection favors a faster maturation that decreases the risk of ...
Raúl Cueva del Castillo +3 more
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Diversity of the gut microbiome in three grasshopper species using 16S rRNA and determination of cellulose digestibility [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Grasshoppers are typical phytophagous pests, and they have large appetites with high utilization of plants fibers, the digestion of which may depend on the microorganisms in their intestines.
Jian-Mei Wang +7 more
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Berkala Sainstek, 2023 Grasshoppers (Caelifera) are herbivorous insects that act as first consumers in the food chain. Grasshoppers can detect the presence or absence of plants as a source of food and a place to live, as well as being an indicator of environmental recovery ...
Rendy Setiawan +2 more
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Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) of the North-West Caucasus: fauna, ecology, landscape and biotopic distribution [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2019 Sixty one species of grasshoppers from 35 genera and 8 subfamilies are recorded for the North-West Caucasus. The features of biotopic distribution of grasshoppers are analyzed on the main types of landscapes in the region.
E.N. Terskov
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Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2017 We introduce and physically motivate the following problem in geometric combinatorics, originally inspired by analysing Bell inequalities. A grasshopper lands at a random point on a planar lawn of area 1. It then jumps once, a fixed distanced, in a random direction.
Goulko, Olga, Kent, Adrian
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Insects, 2022 Grasshoppers (Insecta, Orthoptera, Acridoidea) are a large group of agricultural and animal husbandry pests. They have a large food intake with high utilization of plants fibers.
Jing Bai +7 more
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