Environmental

Herbivore Populations Will Go Down as Temperatures Go Up, U of T Study Says

TORONTO, ON–(ENEWSPF)–October 4, 2011.  As climate change causes temperatures to rise, the number of herbivores will decrease, affecting the human food supply, according to new research from the University of Toronto.

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In a paper being published this month in American Naturalist, a team of ecologists describe how differences in the general responses of plants and herbivores to temperature change produces predictable declines in herbivore populations. This decrease occurs because herbivores grow more quickly at…

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