Do Pollinators Contribute to Nutritional Health?
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| Názov: | Do Pollinators Contribute to Nutritional Health? |
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| Autori: | Ellis, Alicia M., Myers, Samuel S., Ricketts, Taylor H. |
| Zdroj: | PLoS One PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 1, p e114805 (2015) |
| Informácie o vydavateľovi: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015. |
| Rok vydania: | 2015 |
| Predmety: | 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 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article Other literature type |
| Popis súboru: | application/pdf |
| Jazyk: | English |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0114805 |
| Prístupová URL adresa: | 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 |
| Prístupové číslo: | edsair.doi.dedup.....e0fe952c19b992088bcc9318a99fbd01 |
| Databáza: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 19326203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0114805 |