Contribution of Pollinator-Mediated Crops to Nutrients in the Human Food Supply

被引：240

作者：

Eilers, Elisabeth J. ^{[1
,2
]}

Kremen, Claire ^{[3
]}

Greenleaf, Sarah Smith ^{[4
]}

Garber, Andrea K. ^{[5
]}

Klein, Alexandra-Maria ^{[6
]}

机构：

[1] Free Univ Berlin, Dept Appl Zool Anim Ecol, D-1000 Berlin, Germany

[2] Max Planck Inst Chem Ecol, Dept Evolutionary Neuroethol, Jena, Germany

[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[4] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Plant Pathol, Davis, CA 95616 USA

[5] Univ Calif San Francisco, Div Adolescent Med, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA

[6] Leuphana Univ Luneburg, Inst Ecol, Sect Ecosyst Funct, Luneburg, Germany

来源：

PLOS ONE | 2011年 / 6卷 / 06期

关键词：

WORLD AGRICULTURE; NORTH-AMERICAN; ECONOMIC VALUE; HUMAN HEALTH; PLANTS; CONSERVATION; DECLINES; LYCOPENE; TRENDS; YIELD;

D O I：

10.1371/journal.pone.0021363

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The contribution of nutrients from animal pollinated world crops has not previously been evaluated as a biophysical measure for the value of pollination services. This study evaluates the nutritional composition of animal-pollinated world crops. We calculated pollinator dependent and independent proportions of different nutrients of world crops, employing FAO data for crop production, USDA data for nutritional composition, and pollinator dependency data according to Klein et al. (2007). Crop plants that depend fully or partially on animal pollinators contain more than 90% of vitamin C, the whole quantity of Lycopene and almost the full quantity of the antioxidants beta-cryptoxanthin and beta-tocopherol, the majority of the lipid, vitamin A and related carotenoids, calcium and fluoride, and a large portion of folic acid. Ongoing pollinator decline may thus exacerbate current difficulties of providing a nutritionally adequate diet for the global human population.

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