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ArticleScience advances2021

Declining diversity of wild-caught species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk.

Sebastian A Heilpern, Ruth DeFries, Kathryn Fiorella, Alexander Flecker, Suresh A Sethi, María Uriarte, Shahid Naeem

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Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sebastian A HeilpernDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. s.heilpern@cornell.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8673-3149
Ruth DeFriesDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3332-4621
Kathryn FiorellaDeparment of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8625-2473
Alexander FleckerDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4636-2109
Suresh A SethiUSGS New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0053-1827
María UriarteDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0484-0758
Shahid NaeemDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6569-2648

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although biodiversity loss adversely influences a variety of ecosystem functions, how declining wild food diversity affects nutrient supplies for people is poorly understood. Here, we analyze the impact of declining biodiversity on nutrients supplied by fish using detailed information from the Peruvian Amazon, where inland fisheries provide a critical source of nutrition for many of the region's 800,000 people. We found that the impacts of biodiversity loss on nutrient supplies depended on compensation, trophic dynamics, and functional diversity. When small sedentary species compensated for declines in large migratory species, fatty acid supplies increased, while zinc and iron supplies decreased. In contrast, the probability of failing to maintain supplies or nutrient supply risk increased when species were nutritionally unique. Our results show that trait-based regulations and public health polices need to consider biodiversity's vital role in sustaining nutritional benefits for over 2 billion people dependent on wild foods across the globe.

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PMCPMC8163071

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