Plant-Feeding hemiptera and orthoptera communities in native and restored mesic tallgrass prairies

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 324-335

  Nemec, Kristine T ^a,b   Bragg, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b US Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrididae; Auchenorrhyncha; Cicadellidae; Fulgoroidea; Insect communities; Invertebrates; Membracidae; Mesic tallgrass prairie; Orthoptera; Prairie restoration; Shannon diversity; Tettigoniidae

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRASS; HOST PLANT; INSECT; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PRAIRIE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PLATTE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ACRIDIDAE; AUCHENORRHYNCHA; CICADELLIDAE; FULGOROIDEA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MEMBRACIDAE; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 44349116103     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00306.x     Document Type: Article

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