Plant functional traits reveal the relative contribution of habitat and food preferences to the diet of grasshoppers

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1459-1470

  Ibanez, Sébastien ^a,d   Manneville, Olivier ^b   Miquel, Christian ^c   Taberlet, Pierre ^c   Valentini, Alice ^c   Aubert, Serge ^b,c   Coissac, Eric ^c   Colace, Marie Pascale ^b,c   Duparc, Quentin ^b,c   Lavorel, Sandra ^c   Moretti, Marco ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Cafeteria experiment; DNA barcoding; Herbivory; Interaction networks; Niche partitioning

Indexed keywords

DIET; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENERALIST; GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND; HABITAT SELECTION; HERBIVORE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NICHE BREADTH; NICHE PARTITIONING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAELIFERA; CLASSIFICATION; DIET; DNA BARCODING; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HERBIVORY; MALE; PLANT;

ANIMALS; DIET; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GRASSHOPPERS; HERBIVORY; MALE; PLANTS;

EID: 84888390537     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2738-0     Document Type: Article

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