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Two Species with an Unusual Combination of Traits Dominate Responses of British Grasshoppers and Crickets to Environmental Change.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Beckmann Björn C, Purse Bethan V, Roy David B, Roy Helen E, Sutton Peter G, Thomas Chris D
Abstract excerpt
There are large variations in the responses of species to the environmental changes of recent decades, heightening interest in whether their traits may explain inter-specific differences in range expansions and contractions. Using a long-term distributional dataset, we calculated range changes of grasshoppers and crickets in Britain between the 1980s and the 2000s and assessed whether their traits (resource use,...
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