Quantifiying the effects of temperature on herbivory

我们的社会依赖于生态系统生产的商品和服务。这些措施包括碳固存、植物生长和海产品生产。今天科学家面临的一个主要挑战是了解为什么这些功能在不同的地方会有所不同，并预测它们在未来如何随着气候变化而变化。 虽然生态系统是高度复杂的，这种复杂性是很重要的理解，在我的研究中，我采取的方法，我们可以了解大量的生态变化，通过关注非常简单的，一般的影响，环境温度的速率和生态过程的结果。

Our society relies on goods and services produced by ecological systems. These include carbon sequestration, plant growth and seafood production. One major challenge facing scientists today is to understand why these functions vary from place to place, and to anticipate how they might change in the future with climate change. Though ecological systems are highly complex, and this complexity is important to understand, in my research I take the approach that we can understand a substantial amount of ecological change by focusing on very simple, general effects of environmental temperature on the rates and outcomes of ecological processes.