Commercially traded fish portfolios mask household utilization of biodiversity in wild food systems.

ABSTRACT: The global biodiversity that underpins wild food systems-including fisheries-is rapidly declining. Yet, we often have only a limited understanding of how households use and benefit from biodiversity in the ecosystems surrounding them. Explicating these relationships is critical to forestall and mitigate the effects of biodiversity declines on food and nutrition security. Here, we quantify how biodiversity filters from ecosystems to household harvest, consumption, and sale, and how ecological traits and household characteristics shape these relationships. We used a unique, integrated ecological (40 sites, quarterly data collection) and household survey (n = 414, every 2 mo data collection) dataset collected over 3 y in rice field fisheries surrounding Cambodia's Tonlé Sap, one of Earth's mo

SUBMITTER: Fiorella KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11287268 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature