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Do Pollinators Contribute to Nutritional Health?

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Titel: Do Pollinators Contribute to Nutritional Health?
Autoren: Ellis, Alicia M., Myers, Samuel S., Ricketts, Taylor H.
Quelle: PLoS One
PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 1, p e114805 (2015)
Verlagsinformationen: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015.
Publikationsjahr: 2015
Schlagwörter: Environmental Impacts, Adult, 0301 basic medicine, Insecta, Science, Nutritional Status, Ecosystems, 03 medical and health sciences, Folic Acid, Medicine and Health Sciences, Spatial and Landscape Ecology, Animals, Humans, Uganda, Terrestrial Ecology, Pollination, Mozambique, Nutrition, Conservation Science, Population Density, 2. Zero hunger, Bangladesh, 0303 health sciences, Ecology, Plant Ecology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 1. No poverty, Biology and Life Sciences, Infant, Middle Aged, 15. Life on land, Health and Well-Being, Nutrition Surveys, Nature-Society Interactions, Diet, Calcium, Dietary, Child, Preschool, Medicine, Female, Population Ecology, Medicine and Health, Human Ecology, Energy Intake, Iron, Dietary, Research Article
Beschreibung: Despite suggestions that animal pollinators are crucial for human nutritional health, no studies have actually tested this claim. Here, we combined data on crop pollination requirements, food nutrient densities, and actual human diets to predict the effects of pollinator losses on the risk of nutrient deficiency. In four developing countries and across five nutrients, we found that 0 to 56% of populations would become newly at risk if pollinators were removed. Increases in risk were most pronounced for vitamin A in populations with moderate levels of total nutrient intake. Overall, the effects of pollinator decline varied widely among populations and nutrients. We conclude that the importance of pollinators to human nutrition depends critically on the composition of local diets, and cannot be reliably predicted from global commodity analyses. We identify conditions under which severe health effects of pollinator loss are most likely to occur.
Publikationsart: Article
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Dateibeschreibung: application/pdf
Sprache: English
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114805
Zugangs-URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0114805&type=printable
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25575027
https://doaj.org/article/6eb8130cde20471ea678d4464272df90
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0114805
https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114805
https://paperity.org/p/60462406/do-pollinators-contribute-to-nutritional-health
https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/13890626
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/1/13890626/1/4289064.pdf
https://figshare.com/articles/_Do_Pollinators_Contribute_to_Nutritional_Health_/1287119
Rights: CC BY
Dokumentencode: edsair.doi.dedup.....e0fe952c19b992088bcc9318a99fbd01
Datenbank: OpenAIRE
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Abstract:Despite suggestions that animal pollinators are crucial for human nutritional health, no studies have actually tested this claim. Here, we combined data on crop pollination requirements, food nutrient densities, and actual human diets to predict the effects of pollinator losses on the risk of nutrient deficiency. In four developing countries and across five nutrients, we found that 0 to 56% of populations would become newly at risk if pollinators were removed. Increases in risk were most pronounced for vitamin A in populations with moderate levels of total nutrient intake. Overall, the effects of pollinator decline varied widely among populations and nutrients. We conclude that the importance of pollinators to human nutrition depends critically on the composition of local diets, and cannot be reliably predicted from global commodity analyses. We identify conditions under which severe health effects of pollinator loss are most likely to occur.
ISSN:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0114805