Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC

Amount

$449,895.00

Award Date

8/01/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Grasshopper populations, their enemies (predators and parasites), their food plants and nutrient availability for plants have been studied since 1982 in a Montana Palouse prairie ecosystem. Grasshoppers are the dominant herbivore in this ecosystem and str