The Effects of Clearcutting and Wildfire on Grasshoppers and Crickets (Orthoptera) in an Intermountain Forest Ecosystem

J C. Clayton

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of Orthoptera Research

Publication Date

2002

Volume

11

Issue

2

Abstract

Members of 3 families of Orthoptera (Acrididae, Gryllacrididae, Tettigoniidae) were sampled in clearcuts, burned forest, and undisturbed forest in a coniferous forest ecosystem in northern Utah, USA. Sampling was conducted during July and August, 1995 to 1997, by use of pitfall traps. The camel cricket Ceuthophilus fusiformis (Gryllacrididae: Rhaphidophorinae) was the most commonly trapped species in forested plots, where otherwise very few orthopterans were collected. Many more orthopterans were taken in clearcuts and burns and these had equal species richness and total orthopteran abundance. However, the orthopteran assemblages differed between these two treatments. Band-winged grasshoppers (Acrididae: Oedopodinae) tended to be trapped more frequently in clearcuts, especially Camnula pellucida. Burned plots provided greater numbers of Ceuthophilus fusiformis and Steiroxys pallidipalpus (Tettigoniidae: Decticinae).

Comments

Originally published by the Orthopterist's Society. Publisher's PDF and HTML fulltext available through remote link via BioOne.
Note: This article appeared in the Journal of Orthoptera Research (JOR).

First Page

163

Last Page

167

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