How do foraging herbivores negotiate the twin perils of plant toxins and predators?

我们的研究使用了一个新的框架，将植物毒素的成本和捕食风险联系起来，以确定它们对个体觅食食草动物的影响。这将为分析和预测生境多样性变化对本地食草动物的影响，以及外来食草动物和捕食者入侵物种对自然生态系统和人类作物生产的影响提供一种新的方法。这在当今的经济和社会气候中极为宝贵，因为管理必须以影响的证据和减轻影响的成本和效益的量化为基础。

Our research uses a new framework which links the costs of both plant toxins and predation risk to determine their effects on individual foraging herbivores. This will enable a new way of analysing and predicting the impact of changes to habitat diversity on native herbivores, and the impact of invasive alien herbivore and predator species on natural ecosystems and in human crop production. This is extremely valuable in today's economic and social climate, when management must be underpinned by evidence of impact and by quantification of costs and benefits of mitigation.