Evidence for diet-driven habitat partitioning of Melanoplinae and Gomphocerinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) along a vegetation gradient in a Western Oklahoma Grassland

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1209-1214

  Masloski, Kenneth ^a   Greenwood, Carmen ^a   Reiskind, Michael ^b   Payton, Mark ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrididae; factor analysis; feeding habit; habitat partitioning

Indexed keywords

DIET; ENTOMOLOGY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GRASS; GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND; INSECT; NICHE PARTITIONING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ACRIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; AVES; GOMPHOCERINAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MELANOPLINAE; ORTHOPTERA;

ANIMAL; CAELIFERA; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSHOPPERS; GRASSLAND; NYMPH; OKLAHOMA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923108582     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN13349     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Beckerman, A. P. 2000. Counterintuitive outcomes of interspecific competition between two grasshopper species along a resource gradient. Ecology 81: 948-957.
2. Behmer, S. T., and A. Joern. 2008. Coexisting generalist herbivores occupy unique nutritional feeding niches. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105: 1977-1982.
3. Belovsky, G. E., J. B. Slade, and B. A. Stockhoff. 1990. Susceptibility to predation for different grasshoppers: an experimental study. Ecology 71: 624-634.
4. Bock, C. E., J. H. Bock, and M. C. Grant. 1992. Effects of bird predation on grasshopper densities in an Arizona grassland. Ecology 73: 1706-1717.
5. Branson, D. H. 2005. Effects of fire on Grasshopper assemblages in a northern mixed-grass prairie. Environ. Entomol. 34: 1109-1113.
6. Capinera, J. L., R. D. Scott, and T. J. Walker. 2004. Field guide to grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca,NewYork, NY.
7. Chapman, R. F. 1990. Food selection, pp. 39-72. In R. F. Chapman and A. Joern (eds.), Biology of Grasshoppers. Wiley, New York, NY.
8. Daubenmire, R. 1959. A canopy-coverage method of vegetational analysis. Northwest Sci. 33: 43-64.
9. Gardiner, T., J. Hill, and D. Chesmore. 2005. Review of the methods frequently used to estimate the abundance of Orthoptera in grassland ecosystems. J. Insect Conserv. 9: 151-173.
10. Huntzinger, M., R. Karban, and J. H. Cushman. 2008. Negative effects of vertebrate herbivores on invertebrates in a coastal dune community. Ecology 89: 1972-1980.
11. Joern, A. 1979. Feeding patterns in grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae): factors inßuencing diet specialization. Oecologia 38: 325-347.
12. Otte, D. 1981. The North American Grasshoppers, vol. 1. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
13. Pfadt, R. E. 1994. Field guide to common western grasshoppers, 2nd ed. Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 912.
14. Russell, R. E., and J. K. Detling. 2003. Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and Black-tailed Prairie Dogs (Sciuridae: Cynomys ludovicianus (Ord)): associations between two rangeland herbivores. J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 76: 578-587.
15. SAS Institute. 2012. PROC user's manual, version 6th ed. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
16. Southwood, T.R.E. 1978. Ecological Methods: with particular reference to the study of insect populations, p. 524. Chapman & Hall, New York, NY.
17. Storer, W., and R. Blanca. 2011. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. (http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/facts-maps/wma/beaverriver.htm).