Impacts of weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula) invasion on native grasshoppers: Responses of habitat generalist and specialist species

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 531-539

  Yoshioka, Akira ^a   Kadoya, Taku ^a   Suda, Shin ichi ^a   Washitani, Izumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eragrostis; Grasshoppers; Gravelly floodplain; Habitat specialist; Herbivores; Open habitat

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CENSUS; FLOODPLAIN; GENERALIST; GRASS; GRASSHOPPER; HERBIVORE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; SPECIALIST; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VULNERABILITY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; KINU RIVER;

ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS CURVULA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77952881183     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9456-x     Document Type: Article

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