scholarly journals Dietary shifts across biogeographic scales alter spatial subsidy dynamics

Ecosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby L. Ziegler ◽  
Kenneth W. Able ◽  
F. Joel Fodrie
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 101926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent F. Kim ◽  
Raychel E. Santo ◽  
Allysan P. Scatterday ◽  
Jillian P. Fry ◽  
Colleen M. Synk ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tashina Petersson ◽  
Luca Secondi ◽  
Andrea Magnani ◽  
Marta Antonelli ◽  
Katarzyna Dembska ◽  
...  

AbstractInforming and engaging citizens to adopt sustainable diets is a key strategy for reducing global environmental impacts of the agricultural and food sectors. In this respect, the first requisite to support citizens and actors of the food sector is to provide them a publicly available, reliable and ready to use synthesis of environmental pressures associated to food commodities. Here we introduce the SU-EATABLE LIFE database, a multilevel database of carbon (CF) and water (WF) footprint values of food commodities, based on a standardized methodology to extract information and assign optimal footprint values and uncertainties to food items, starting from peer-reviewed articles and grey literature. The database and its innovative methodological framework for uncertainty treatment and data quality assurance provides a solid basis for evaluating the impact of dietary shifts on global environmental policies, including climate mitigation through greenhouse gas emission reductions. The database ensures repeatability and further expansion, providing a reliable science-based tool for managers and researcher in the food sector.


1983 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Shammas

The proportion of a household's budget spent on diet has commonly served as an important measure of material welfare. This paper pulls together data concerning trends in food expenditures for early modern England and draws comparisons with figures for later periods. The usefulness of wage assessments, a new source for estimating the proportion of outlays devoted to diet, is examined. The impact on food expenditures of new commodities and other dietary shifts is also explored. The findings call into question earlier estimates of the proportion of total expenditure devoted to food and drink in the pre-industrial period and the assumption that food expenditures are always inelastic.


2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Olsen ◽  
Esteban Fuentes ◽  
David M. Bird ◽  
A. B. Rose ◽  
David Judge

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario V. Condini ◽  
Elisa Seyboth ◽  
João P. Vieira ◽  
Alexandre M. Garcia

The dusky grouper (Mycteroperca marginata) is a marine species usually associated with rocky bottoms and reefs. The present work investigated the diet and feeding strategy of a dusky grouper population inhabiting a 4.5 km long pair of rocky jetties located in the mouth of Patos Lagoon estuary. No prior research has been conducted in such man-made habitat and the current study provides a basis for comparative studies on the diet of the dusky grouper populations inhabiting natural vs. man-made rocky habitats. Similarly with previous studies on natural substrates, crabs and fishes were the main food categories consumed (%IRI = 85.1 and %IRI = 12.6, respectively), whereas shrimps and mollusks had lower importance in the diet (%IRI = 1.9 and 0.4, respectively). As previously reported for dusky grouper populations inhabiting reefs and rocky bottoms, the present work revealed conspicuous size related dietary shifts. Blue crabs and fishes become increasingly important food items in the diet of larger individuals (> 500 mm, TL). Finally, it was found that the studied dusky population has a generalist feeding strategy with a high between-individual variation in prey consumption. Such strategy remained similar across the size increment of the species. Our findings suggest that man-made rocky substrates provide suitable feeding grounds for the dusky grouper in southern Brazil and could be used as an additional tool in the conservation efforts of this endangered species.


Geoderma ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 144 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 86-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.W. Hopkins ◽  
A.D. Sparrow ◽  
E.G. Gregorich ◽  
P. Novis ◽  
B. Elberling ◽  
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