Is cattle grazing more important than landscape heterogeneity for grasshoppers in Afromontane grassland?

Overgrazing is a major driver of habitat degradation, especially in southern Africa. Although grasshoppers are adapted to and benefit from natural disturbances, such as grazing by indigenous game and burning, we do not know how they respond to heavy cattle grazing, and how this res...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lize Joubert-Van der Merwe, James S. Pryke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Orthoptera Research
Online Access:https://jor.pensoft.net/article/15027/