Counterintuitive outcomes of interspecific competition between two grasshopper species along a resource gradient

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 948-957

  Beckerman, Andrew P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorthippus curtipennis; Connecticut (USA) old fields; Environmental gradients and interspecies competition; Field experiment; Food resource gradients and distribution patterns; Grasshoppers (Orthoptera); Included niche competition; Interspecific competition; Melanoplus femurrubrum; Shared resources

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASSHOPPER; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION;

ACRIDIDAE; CHORTHIPPUS; CHORTHIPPUS CURTIPENNIS; MELANOPLUS FEMURRUBRUM; MENALOPLUS; MENALOPLUS FEMURRUBRUM; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0033936820     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0948:COOICB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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