Title | Food Chains and Human Nutrition [electronic resource] / edited by Kenneth Blaxter |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1980 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7336-0 |
Descript | X, 472 p. online resource |
Ecological Concepts and Their Relevance to Human Nutrition -- Manโs Demand for Energy -- World Production of Organic Matter -- Secondary Production in the Oceans -- Secondary Production from Land -- Amino Acids: Production by Plants and the Requirements of Man -- The Nitrogen Economy of Marine and Land Environments -- Manโs Impact on Environmental Systems -- Man and the Major Mineral Elements -- Uptake of Some Major Mineral Elements by Plants -- Trace Mineral Elements, Mammalian Requirements and Manโs Presumptive Needs -- Trace Elements in Soils and Plants -- Trace Elements in the Marine Environment -- Support Energy from Fossil Fuels -- Radioactive Materials -- Radioactive Materialsโthe Aquatic Environment -- Pesticides and Other Man-made Chemicals and the Food Chain -- Implications of the Intensification of Agriculture for Ecological Problems -- Implications for Human Health and Nutrition and the Research That Needs to be Done -- List of Participants