@article {KNZ001336,
	title = {Grasshoppers (Orthoptera:  Acrididae) select vegetation patches in local-scale responses to foliar nitrogen but not phosphorus in native grassland},
	journal = {Insect Science},
	volume = {18},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {533 -540},
	abstract = {<p>Key elements such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are often limiting relative to the nutritional needs of herbivores that feed on them. While N often limits insect herbivores in natural terrestrial ecosystems, the effect of P is poorly studied in the field, even though compelling hypotheses from the ecological stoichiometry literature predict its importance. We evaluated small-scale spatial distributions of, and herbivory by, grasshoppers among neighboring plots that vary in foliar-N and -P in tallgrass prairie. Grasshopper densities were 67\% greater in N-fertilized plots but detected no effect to grasshopper densities from P-fertilizer. Leaf damage to the dominant grass Andropogon gerardii was 32\% greater in N-fertilized plots, but no response to foliar-P was detected. Herbivore damage to a common forb, goldenrod (Solidago missouriensis), was not strongly linked by fertilizer treatments, although there was increased leaf damage in N-fertilizer treatments when no P was applied (a significant N \&times; P interaction). Under field conditions at local scales, we conclude that spatially heterogeneous distributions of grasshoppers are primarily affected by foliar-N in host plants with little evidence that P-levels contribute to the spatial patterns.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ, Andropogon gerardii, ecological stoichiometry, insect herbivory, Konza Prairie, N-P fertilization experiment, Solidago missouriensis},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1744-7917.2010.01376.x},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-7917.2010.01376.x},
	author = {Loaiza, V. and Jonas, J.L. and Anthony Joern}
}
