Interspecific competition among grasshoppers and their effect on plant abundance in experimental field environments

Agriculture & Biology

• grasshoppers 80%
• interspecific competition 79%
• Melanoplus 23%
• phytomass 21%
• Solidago 20%
• Melanoplus bivittatus 12%
• Schizachyrium scoparium 10%
• grasses 10%
• Poa pratensis 9%
• forbs 8%
• femur 7%
• stocking rate 7%
• nitrogen content 6%
• survival rate 5%
• vegetation 5%
• prediction 4%
• summer 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• grasshopper 100%
• interspecific competition 90%
• effect 16%
• relative abundance 13%
• biomass 12%
• plant species 12%
• grass 12%
• old field 9%
• survivorship 8%
• food 4%
• vegetation 4%
• nitrogen 4%
• summer 4%
• resource 3%
• prediction 3%