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Recommended food alternatives (healthier, eco-friendly, and cost-effective)
<p>It includes recommended food alternatives (healthier, eco-friendly, and cost-effective) for items selected from receipts. This dataset is valuable for research in consumer food science, as it captures the food choices of a small group of consumers over 21 days. It is also useful for machine learning training. All food items are linked to NAct ontology.</p> <p> </p>
Data supplementing Lichtenberg et al. (2018) Costs and benefits of alternative food handling tactics help explain facultative exploitation of pollination mutualisms. Ecology
<p>This dataset contains data and scripts that supplement the publication</p> <p>Lichtenberg et al. (2018) Costs and benefits of alternative food handling tactics help explain facultative exploitation of pollination mutualisms. Ecology 99: 1815-1824.</p> <p>https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.2395</p> <p> </p> <p>Please cite the above article if you use any of the included data or code.</p> <p> </p> <p>Files are described in README.md.</p>
Data from: Alternative food sources interfere with removal of a fungal amphibian pathogen by zooplankton
<p>1. While the amphibian disease chytridiomycosis is causing ongoing population declines and biodiversity losses around the globe, efficient mitigation strategies are lacking. The free-living zoospores of the causative agents of this disease, the chytrid pathogens <i>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</i> (Bd) and <i>Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans</i> (Bsal), are a potential food source for filter-feeding micropredators as part of the aquatic food web. While consumption of zoospores can lower environmental pathogen loads, alternative food sources may interfere with pathogen removal rates.</p> <p>2. We compared the ability of three filter-feeding zooplankton species, i.e. the cladoceran <i>Daphnia magna</i>, the rotifer <i>Brachionus calyciflorus</i> and the ostracod <i>Heterocypris incongruens,</i> to remove Bd zoospores in water and investigated the effect of alternative food sources, i.e. the green algae <i>Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata</i> and <i>Chlorella vulgaris</i>, on zoospore ingestion by <i>D. magna</i>.</p> <p>3.<i> D. magna</i> was the only micropredator candidate that effectively removed Bd zoospores from its environment, with an average removal rate of 1,012 ± 542 GE ind.<sup>-1</sup> h<sup>-1</sup> within our test system. High concentrations (1x10<sup>5</sup> cells/mL) of large and easily ingestible <i>P. subcapitata</i> reduced pathogen removal rates, whereas the small and less edible <i>C. vulgaris</i> did not interfere with pathogen removal.</p> <p>4. <i>Synthesis and applications:</i> We showed that <i>Daphnia spp</i>., which are keystone species in all sorts of aquatic habitats worldwide, are promising target agents for biologically mitigating chytridiomycosis infections and how natural food sources may interfere with this strategy. We also suggest potential management actions for biological disease mitigation, aiming to optimize environmental conditions for these target filter-feeders, thereby reducing pathogen densities and eventually infection pressure in amphibian hosts. Examples of such management actions include, but are not limited to, removal of planktivorous fish, habitat restoration, nutrient control or agrochemical regulation in the vicinity of amphibian breeding ponds. Further studies, including field trials, are needed to confirm the effects of pathogen consumption on infection dynamics in natural situations and investigate the impact of intervention actions.</p>
Data from: Alternative food sources interfere with removal of a fungal amphibian pathogen by zooplankton
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Data from: How common road salts and organic additives alter freshwater food webs: in search of safer alternatives
The application of deicing road salts began in the 1940s and has increased drastically in regions where snow and ice removal is critical for transportation safety. The most commonly applied road salt is sodium chloride (NaCl). However, the increased costs of NaCl, its negative effects on human health, and the degradation of roadside habitats has driven transportation agencies to seek alternative road salts and organic additives to reduce the application rate of NaCl or increase its effectiveness. Few studies have examined the effects of NaCl in aquatic ecosystems, but none have explored the potential impacts of road salt alternatives or additives on aquatic food webs. We assessed the effects of three road salts (NaCl, MgCl2 and ClearLane™) and two road salts mixed with organic additives (GeoMelt™ and Magic Salt™) on food webs in experimental aquatic communities, with environmentally relevant concentrations, standardized by chloride concentration. We found that NaCl had few effects on aquatic communities. However, the microbial breakdown of organic additives initially reduced dissolved oxygen. Additionally, microbial activity likely transformed unusable phosphorus from the organic additives to usable phosphorus for algae, which increased algal growth. The increase in algal growth led to an increase in zooplankton abundance. Finally, MgCl2 – a common alternative to NaCl – reduced compositional differences of zooplankton, and at low concentrations increased the abundance of amphipods. Synthesis and applications. Our results indicate that alternative road salts (to NaCl), and road salt additives can alter the abundance and composition of organisms in freshwater food webs at multiple trophic levels, even at low concentrations. Consequently, road salt alternatives and additives might alter ecosystem function and ecosystem services. Therefore, transportation agencies should use caution in applying road salt alternatives and additives. A comprehensive investigation of road salt alternatives and road salt additives should be conducted before wide-scale use is implemented. Further research is also needed to determine the impacts of salt additives and alternatives on higher trophic levels, such as amphibians and fish.
SWAP-MEAT: Study With Appetizing Plant Food - Meat Eating Alternatives Trial
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT03718988. IPD Sharing: Not stated. Countries: 1. Publications: 2.
Health Impacts of Sustainable Ingredient Selection in the Food and Drink Industry - ALTERNATIVE PROTEIN STUDY
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT01898351. IPD Sharing: Not stated. Countries: 1. Publications: 1.
Comparison of an Alternative Therapeutic Food for the International Food Aid Market to a Standard Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for the Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Children
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT03407326. IPD Sharing: NO. Countries: 1. Publications: 1.
Data from: Winter food limits timing of pre-alternate molt in a short-distance migratory bird
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Data from: How common road salts and organic additives alter freshwater food webs: in search of safer alternatives
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Data from: Phantom alternatives influence food preferences in the eastern honey bee Apis cerana
1. Most models of animal choice behaviour assume that desirable but unavailable options, such as a high quality, but inhabited nest site, do not influence an individual's preferences for the remaining options. However, experiments suggest that in mammals such 'phantom' alternatives can alter, and even reverse, an individual's preferences for other items in a choice set. 2. Here we investigate the effect of phantom alternatives on feeder preferences in the eastern honey bee, Apis cerana. 3. First, we tested the effects of unattractive and attractive phantom by presenting individual bees with either a binary choice set containing two feeders that differed strongly in two qualities, but were equally preferred overall ('the target' and 'the competitor'), or a trinary choice set containing the target, the competitor and one of two phantom types (unattractive and attractive). Second, we determined whether phantoms change preferences between the competitor and target by increasing preference towards or away from the phantom-similar available choice. 4. Attractive phantoms consistently changed individual bee preferences in favour of the phantom-similar choice. 5. Our study shows that the phantom alternative effect is not limited to mammals. Moreover, the phantom effect can shift individual preference in a consistent and predictable way. Our results highlight the importance of considering the potential for phantom effects when considering the foraging behaviour of animals in natural environments.
Dataset Exploring alternative red seaweed species for the production of agar-based hydrogels for food applications
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Data from: Phantom alternatives influence food preferences in the eastern honey bee Apis cerana
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