Grasshoppers Signal Slow Recovery of Post-Agricultural Woodlands, Study Finds
Monday, November 24, 2014 - 16:31
in Biology & Nature
By comparing grasshoppers found at woodland sites once used for agriculture to similar sites never disturbed by farming, UW-Madison Philip Hahn and John Orrock show that despite decades of recovery, the numbers and types of species found in each differ, as do the understory plants and other ecological variables, like soil properties.