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The Ecological Background of Population Vulnerability in Central European Grasshoppers and Bush Crickets: A Brief Review

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Species Survival in Fragmented Landscapes

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In the (mainly semi-arid) grassland ecosystems of Central Europe, grasshoppers and bush crickets are two of the dominant consumer groups, with respect to both their bio-mass and their numbers. On the one hand, most of them are phytophagous (and often graminivorous) and can cut and eat as much as about 10% of the primary production (review of grasshoppers in Köhler et al., 1987). On the other hand, they represent a temporally limited source of food especially for some spider, lizard, and bird species.

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  1. Institute of Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Neugasse 23, D-07743, Jena, Germany

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  1. Department of Semi-Natural Landscapes, UFZ, Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle Ltd., Leipzig, Germany

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  2. Division of Wildlife and Ecology, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

    Chris Margules

  3. Department of Nature Conservation II, Faculty of Biology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany

    Peter Poschlod

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Köhler, G. (1996). The Ecological Background of Population Vulnerability in Central European Grasshoppers and Bush Crickets: A Brief Review. In: Settele, J., Margules, C., Poschlod, P., Henle, K. (eds) Species Survival in Fragmented Landscapes. The GeoJournal Library, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0343-2_35

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