Sheldon J K, Rogers L E
Ecosystems Department, Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, P.O. Box 999, 99352, Richland, WA, USA.
Oecologia. 1978 Jan;32(1):85-92. doi: 10.1007/BF00344692.
Results from a dietary analysis of eight grasshopper species inhabiting a shrub-steppe community in southeastern Washington showed that 15 vascular plant species served as food items. Several plant species occurred at higher frequencies in the diet samples than in the plant community. Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) was the most frequently selected plant species, followed by turpentine cymopterus (Cymopterus terebinthinus), green rabbitbrush (Chrysothammus viscidiflorus), and Carey's balsamroot (Balsamorhiza careyana).
对栖息于华盛顿州东南部一个灌丛草原群落的八种蝗虫进行饮食分析的结果表明,有15种维管植物物种是它们的食物。在饮食样本中,有几种植物物种出现的频率高于其在植物群落中的频率。三齿蒿(Artemisia tridentata)是最常被选择的植物物种,其次是松节油丝叶芹(Cymopterus terebinthinus)、绿兔耳草(Chrysothammus viscidiflorus)和凯里香根芹(Balsamorhiza careyana)。