Realm: Terrestrial
Climate: Temperate
Biome: Deserts and xeric shrublands
Central latitude: 32.620000
Central longitude: -106.740000
Duration: 3 years, from 1983 to 1985

3027 records

40 distinct species

Across the time series Trimerotropis pallidipennis is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

This is grasshopper data sampled from 9 plots on the east bajada of the Dona Ana Mts. Three plots were situated on the bajada parallel to and 200 m south of the LTER transect. Two additional sets of three plots were located 5 km and 10 km south of the LTER transect. Each plot is composed of two 50 m belt transects. each divided into ten 5 m2 quadrats. Grasshoppers were visually sampled in each quadrat/plot. once in May. July and September. in 1983. 1984 and 1985. Each individual grasshopper. its age. sex and substrate it was observed on. are recorded. Visual counts in quadrats Unit of abundance = IndCountInt, Unit of biomass = NA

Citation(s)

Lightfoot, D. (2007) “Jornada Grasshopper Data”. Jornada Basin LTER. Available at: http://jornada.nmsu.edu/lter/dataset/49712/view, accessed 2016.