Frightened Grasshoppers Slow Soil Nutrient Cycle (5 of 15) (IMAGE)

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Frightened Grasshoppers Slow Soil Nutrient Cycle (5 of 15)

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This is the herbivore grasshopper Melanoplus femurrubrum. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 15, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dror Hawlena at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and colleagues was titled, "Fear of Predation Slows Plant-Litter Decomposition."

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Image courtesy of Dror Hawlena

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