It's one of the tools I use to understand ecological and evolutionary processes.

它是我用来理解生态和进化过程的工具之一。

They see the world as governed by fundamental ecological processes with limits that we transgress to our peril.

他们认为世界受基本生态过程的支配，我们越界就会面临危险。

E) The rise of the idea of the environment and a scholarly understanding of ecological processes has influenced new technologies and also politics.

E) 环境观念的兴起和对生态过程的学术理解影响了新技术和政治。

To test if these ecological processes were driving patterns, scientists sampled from different areas of fairy circles— the center of rings, on the rings, and the bare, outer edge.

为了测试这些生态过程是否是驱动模式，科学家们从仙女圈的不同区域——环的中心、环上和裸露的外缘——进行了采样。

And this is that the Earth, the environment — another idea he invented, " the environment" — is governed by these ecological processes and we transgress them at our peril.

这就是地球， 环境——他发明的另一个概念，“环境” ——受这些生态过程的支配， 我们违背它们， 后果自负。