Food chains and human nutrition
1980
Blaxter, K. L. (Kenneth Lyon)
Abstract: A series of scientific symposium papers examines various factors affecting man's use of the world's ecosystems for food production. Ecosystems express the interrelationships among living organisms with the physical and chemical factors affecting their environment. A specificstructure exists in each system, through which the flow of energy, nutrients, or pollutants can be traced. The food chain is a series of ecosystems which must be understood before methods are introduced to increase crop or animal production. Biomes are plant community classifications with specific productivity characteristics, which can be used forglobal analysis of potential food production. Other topics include: man's demand for energy; plant production of amino acids and man's requirements; the uptake of mineral elementsby plants; man's presumptive need for trace elements; trace elements in the marine environment; and radioactive materials. Implications for human health and nutrition are discussed and future research directions are suggested. (cs).
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Publisher Science Publishers | London : Applied Science Publishers, ©1980
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