作者: Arianne Cease , Le Kang , Shuguang Hao , Shiping Wang
DOI: 10.1007/S10980-015-0247-8
关键词: Biodiversity 、 Abundance (ecology) 、 Species richness 、 Plant community 、 Ecology 、 Grazing 、 Grasshopper 、 Steppe 、 Geography 、 Herbivore
摘要: Context Grasshoppers are a dominant herbivore assemblage globally and play an important role for ecosystem nutrient cycling. Yet, we lack a strong understanding of the relationship between grasshopper diversity and plant community composition at the landscape scale. Objective Our aim was to test landscape scale relationships between plant and grasshopper communities. Methods We used a large-scale, replicated experiment at four sites, including grazed and protected pastures across a 350 km transect and 200–400 mm precipitation …