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Food Chains and Human Nutrition

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  • © 1980

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Editors:
  1. Kenneth Blaxter

    1. The Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, UK

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Ecological Concepts and their Relevance to Human Nutrition

    • J. N. R. Jeffers
    Pages 1-22

  3. Man’s Demand for Energy

    • D. S. Miller
    Pages 23-49

  4. World Production of Organic Matter

    • D. O. Hall
    Pages 51-92

  5. Secondary Production in the Oceans

    • John H. Steele
    Pages 93-108

  6. Secondary Production from Land

    • W. Holmes
    Pages 109-134

  7. Amino Acids: Production by Plants and the Requirements of Man

    • L. Fowden
    Pages 135-159

  8. The Nitrogen Economy of Marine and Land Environments

    • John R. Postgate
    Pages 161-185

  9. Man’s Impact on Environmental Systems

    • M. W. Holdgate
    Pages 187-214

  10. Man and the Major Mineral Elements

    • Elsie M. Widdowson
    Pages 215-232

  11. Uptake of Some Major Mineral Elements by Plants

    • T. S. West, B. W. Bache
    Pages 233-256

  12. Trace Mineral Elements, Mammalian Requirements and Man’s Presumptive Needs

    • Walter Mertz
    Pages 257-271

  13. Trace Elements in Soils and Plants

    • Iain Thornton, John S. Webb
    Pages 273-315

  14. Trace Elements in the Marine Environment

    • P. T. Grant, J. R. Sargent
    Pages 317-339

  15. Support Energy from Fossil Fuels

    • Roger M. Gifford
    Pages 341-362

  16. Radioactive Materials

    • R. S. Bruce
    Pages 363-384

  17. Radioactive Materials—The Aquatic Environment

    • R. J. Pentreath
    Pages 385-400

  18. Pesticides and Other Man-made Chemicals and the Food Chain

    • N. W. Moore
    Pages 401-413

  19. Implications of the Intensification of Agriculture for Ecological Problems

    • G. W. Cooke
    Pages 415-439

  20. Implications for Human Health and Nutrition—and the Research That Needs to be Done

    • John Butterfield
    Pages 441-453
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About this book

The purpose of the third symposium organised by the Advisory Committee on Nutrition and Crop Husbandry _of the Rank Prize Funds was to explore in some depth the complex processes whereby organic and inorganic materials reach man's diet, paying particular attenti

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, UK

    Kenneth Blaxter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Food Chains and Human Nutrition

  • Editors: Kenneth Blaxter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7336-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Applied Science Publishers Ltd 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-7338-4Published: 09 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-7336-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 472

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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