Diet of tropical Roseate Tern chicks on Aride Island and the role of local oceanographic conditions and age of chicks on food provisioning

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia I. Pedro ◽  
David Monticelli ◽  
Vitor H. Paiva ◽  
Jaime A. Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Roseate Tern ◽  
Oceanographic Conditions

Eat What’s Good for You

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Best
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Parental Pressure ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Good For ◽  
Washington High School ◽  
Role Of Parents

This chapter focuses on Washington High School and its cafeteria, examining the different types of food found there and the role of parents in shaping the cafeteria and students, with specific attention to social class and its consequence for a public food provisioning system. The first part of the chapter sketches the changing set of arrangements in food consumption toward a focus on health that Dan, the food director, labored to bring into being and the role of parental pressure in driving such change. The second part of the chapter shifts attention toward youth, highlighting the way class dispositions shape what kids consume and how they consume, and examining how this same ambivalence finds expression in the types of play students engage in this space.

Food

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Basic Human Needs ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Agricultural Yields ◽  
Nations System

This chapter considers food as a basic good that satisfies critical basic human needs for both calories and other important nutrients. It considers the widespread nature of food deprivation and challenges to addressing this deprivation, including climate change, water shortages, and increased population growth. The chapter examines the subsistence right to food and the role of this right within the United Nations system of human rights. It also examines ways to increase agricultural yields, both through biotechnology and agro-ecology, paying particular attention to Africa where emerging food security issues appear to be the most pressing. It considers issues of infrastructure and waste and the roles of fisheries and livestock in food security. It concludes with a consideration of demand-side issues and food provisioning processes.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Foraging Habitats and Chick Food Provisioning by Tropical Roseate Terns

The Condor ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 795-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime A. Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Food Delivery ◽  
Predatory Fish ◽  
Flock Size ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Sterna Dougallii ◽  
Seasonal Basis ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Seasonal Decline ◽  
Roseate Tern

Abstract I studied tropical Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii) on Aride Island, Seychelles, between 1997–1999. Productivity in 1998 was 0.58 fledglings/breeding pair, and in 1999 no young fledged. Roseate Terns on Aride concentrated their foraging along the coastline exposed to prevailing winds, with flock size over this area being significantly correlated with amount of food offered to chicks. In 1998, Lesser Noddies (Anous tenuirostris) were present in 91% of the Roseate Tern flocks, but in 1999 occurred in only 32%. During the 1998 successful breeding season, Roseate Terns were associated with dense flocks of Lesser Noddies over predatory fish, whereas during the 1999 failure season most Roseate Tern flocks were either monospecific or mixed with Fairy Terns (Gygis alba), and without predatory fish. The mean flock size of Roseate Terns (82 vs. 6 birds) and the rate of foraging attempts (8.3 vs. 2.8 attempts min−1) were significantly greater in association with predatory fish. Mullidae (Parupeneus or Mulloidichthys) were the primary prey taken by Roseate Terns, and alternative sources of food were apparently scarce. The high daily variations in the amount of food brought to chicks, intermediate periods of low food delivery, and an apparent seasonal decline in the amount of food brought to the colony suggest that food is unpredictable on a daily and seasonal basis. Absence of predatory fish may explain complete breeding failures and periods of low food delivery, but the importance of other factors is unknown. Information on the ecology and movement patterns of predatory fish around Aride Island is needed to assist the conservation of the Roseate Terns.

The role of oceanographic conditions and plankton availability in larval fish assemblages off the Catalan coast (NW Mediterranean)

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. PILAR OLIVAR ◽  
MIKHAIL EMELIANOV ◽  
FERNANDO VILLATE ◽  
IBON URIARTE ◽  
FRANCESC MAYNOU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fish Assemblages ◽  
Larval Fish ◽  
Catalan Coast ◽  
Nw Mediterranean ◽  
Oceanographic Conditions

Adverse weather reduces the spatial use of an opportunistic gull

Behaviour ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 157 (7) ◽  
pp. 667-681
Author(s):  
Nere Zorrozua ◽  
Sergio Delgado ◽  
Asier Aldalur ◽  
Juan Arizaga
Keyword(s):  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Seabird Species ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
Spatial Use ◽  
Larus Michahellis ◽  
Bad Weather ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Foraging Distances

Abstract Studying the individual or population response of species to variations in weather is gaining impetus due to increased interest in quantifying the effect of global change on biodiversity. Our goal here was to test the role of meteorological conditions (particularly extreme weather) on the activity budget of a generalist seabird species during its breeding season. To this end we used data from GPS-tracked adult yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis). Precipitation and wind had a significant impact on spatial use, reducing foraging distances and forcing gulls to spend a longer period within the colony and promoting a change in habitat use. The results suggest that rainfall and wind forced breeding gulls to desist from the area and habitats used under favourable weather, which might affect chicks’ food provisioning. In a future with increasing rainfall and a higher number of extreme bad weather events, investigation should be conducted to establish the extent to which reduction in spatial use may negatively impact reproduction and, hence, demography.

Contrasting patterns of nestling obesity and food provisioning in three species of Puffinus shearwaters: the role of predictability

Ibis ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEITH C. HAMER ◽  
JANE K. HILL ◽  
J. STEWART BRADLEY ◽  
RON D. WOOLLER
Keyword(s):  
Food Provisioning

scholarly journals Healthy and Indulgent Food Consumption Practices Within Grandparent–Grandchild Identity Bundles: A Qualitative Study of New Zealand and Danish Families

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2199239
Author(s):  
Stephanie O’Donohoe ◽  
Malene Gram ◽  
Caroline Marchant ◽  
Heike Schänzel ◽  
Anne Kastarinen
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Family Identity ◽  
Parental Feeding Practices ◽  
Parental Feeding ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Eating Practices

Both grandparenting and food provisioning practices play an important role in contemporary family life, but the role of food in grandparent–grandchild and wider family relationships is underresearched. Popular and academic discourse often focuses on grandparents as indulgent feeders with negative implications for children’s weight and eating practices. Drawing on the concept of family identity bundles and interviews with Danish and New Zealand grandparents and grandchildren, it was found that, for both generations, being alone together was a treat in itself and a time for treats, although they were fluent in the discourse of balance and moderation. Grandparents’ food-related practices were shaped by the internalized as well as actual presence of the parents, but they tended to experience rather than express tensions over parental feeding practices. These findings offer a nuanced account of grandparents’ role in children’s (un)healthy eating practices and of the role of food in intergenerational family relationships.

scholarly journals How Can Households Eat in austerity? Challenges for Social Policy in the UK

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Dowler ◽  
Hannah Lambie-Mumford
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Fuel Prices ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Nutritional Health ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Community Sector ◽  
Local Levels

In the United Kingdom many households are seeing their food security suffer through rising food and fuel prices, economic recession and welfare reform. Household budgeting priorities by necessity tend to be towards expenditures whose default consequences are severe; food budgets are where people can and do make economies. People manage variously on minimal diets, food gifts and charitable support, but the consequences in terms of social wellbeing and nutritional health, while potentially severe, are hidden and individually embodied rather than monitored and addressed by society. This article discusses the potential consequences of these shifts in household food provisioning under conditions of increasing austerity. The challenges posed for social policy are explored, particularly in relation to changes in welfare provision, the increasingly prominent role of the voluntary and community sector and potential devolution of responsibilities to local levels.

Eating Insects: A Christian Ethic of Farmed Insect Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 095394682110450
Author(s):  
Jack Slater
Keyword(s):  
Food Ethics ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Traditional Farming ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
Christian Ethic ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Food Ethic

Proponents of entomophagy have argued that the farming of insects offers many advantages when contrasted with more traditional farming practices. This article explores the place of insect farming within a wider Christian food ethic and argues that insect farming has much to recommend it. However, through exploring the role of animal agriculture within the ideological structures of anthropocentrism, a more ambiguous picture of the ethics of insect farming emerges. This belies a simple endorsement or denunciation of insect farming as an ethical alternative to the farming of larger animals. Moreover, the example of insect farming reveals that Christian food ethics needs to radically reimagine the entire food provisioning system if it is to inculcate substantive change in human relationships with nonhuman animals.

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