Minerals

Robbins, Charles T.

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“…Nutritional requirements for animals are often much higher during stages of growth or reproduction (Robbins 1983). Thus, we separated requirement values for both 1) adult maintenance and 2) during periods of heightened Na requirement (e.g.…”

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“…Most of an animals Na intake is derived from its natural diet and water consumption (Robbins 1983). While other sources may exist (e.g.…”

Section: Sodium Intake From Diet and Watermentioning

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“…However, scaling of Na requirements in herbivores remains poorly understood. Though it has been argued that Na requirements may scale hypo-allometrically (decreasing with body mass (BM)) like metabolic rate and forage intake (BM 0.75 , Hellgren and Pitts 1997), others have suggested that Na requirements may scale isometrically, or proportional to BM (BM 1.0 , Robbins 1983). In the latter case, the difference in scaling of Na intake and Na requirements would lead to increased Na deficiency in larger-bodied herbivores, and may explain disproportionate use of mineral licks and other Na rich materials by larger species.…”

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Allometry of sodium requirements and mineral lick use among herbivorous mammals

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Griffiths

Clauss

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Sodium (Na) plays a critical role in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. In Na‐poor regions, plant consumers may experience Na deficiency and adapt by seeking supplementary Na resources. This can markedly impact animal behavior, space‐use, and co‐existence, with concomitant impacts on ecosystems. Many studies have noted that Na‐seeking behaviors, such as soil consumption from mineral licks, are predominately observed for larger‐bodied herbivores. However, the mechanisms that drive interspecific variation in Na deficiency and mineral lick use remain poorly understood. Here, we examine whether allometric scaling of Na requirements can explain variation in mineral lick use by herbivorous and omnivorous mammals. We 1) collated data from published literature to derive an allometric scaling of Na requirements in mammals, 2) compared predicted Na requirements to estimated Na intake of mammal communities in three globally distant sites: the Peruvian Amazon, Kalahari Desert, and Malaysian Borneo and 3) examined the relationship between predicted Na deficiency and mineral lick use utilizing camera‐trap and mammal abundance data at each site. We found that minimum daily Na maintenance requirements in mammals scaled allometrically at a higher factor (BM0.91 (CI: 0.80–1.0)) than that of food and water Na intake (BM0.71–0.79), indicating that larger species may be more susceptible to Na limitation. This aligned with a positive association between mineral lick use and body mass (BM), as well as Na deficiency, by species at all sites, and increased artificial salt and mineral lick consumption by larger‐bodied mammals in the Kalahari. Our results suggest that larger herbivores may be more sensitive to anthropogenic impacts to Na availability, which may alter their functional roles in ecosystems, particularly in Na‐poor regions. Further research is needed to explore the consequences of changing Na availability on animals and ecosystems, as well as advance our understanding of Na physiology in mammals.

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“…Most of an animals Na intake is derived from its natural diet and water consumption (Robbins 1983). While other sources may exist (e.g.…”

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Allometry of sodium requirements and mineral lick use among herbivorous mammals

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“…Although they do not yield energy, micronutrients have to be ingested aside from macronutrients in order to provide a healthy diet (Robbins, 1993b(Robbins, , 1993cNational Research Council, 2003dLambert, 2011). These micronutrients include minerals and vitamins which have key roles in biological processes and body maintenance.…”

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Energetics in wild female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis): a behavioral and physiological approach

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“… Robbins, Unlimited Power, 23. 144 Robbins, Unlimited Power,[156][157] Robbins, Unlimited Power, 391.146 Robbins, Unlimited Power, 393.147 Robbins, Unlimited Power, 273.148 Robbins discusses "The Magic of Rapport" in a chapter of the same name. He describes this as "the underpinning of all successful human interaction."…”

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Self-Help in the 1990s: The Management of the Self in the Clinton Era

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<p>In the 1990s, there was a presumption that the election of Bill Clinton marked a new kind of politics, one marked in part by the heightened visibility of therapeutic language and concepts in political discourse. This thesis questions that presumption by placing trends in the mainstream of self-help (as articulated directly in books and television talk-shows and indirectly in Hollywood cinema) alongside the policy agenda of successive administrations. A comparison of the Clinton era and the preceding Reagan-Bush era does indeed reveal parallels between the dominant strains of therapeutic culture and the dominant politics of each era. Some have sought to explain these parallels by arguing that therapeutic culture displaces traditional forms of legitimisation in the political system. Such an argument suggests that the therapeutic ethos succeeds where “traditional” institutions of all kinds (mainstream religion, the family, the law) are in a post-1960s state of decline. Others find that the influence works in the other direction: that the ethos of personal responsibility within contemporary self-help reflects the growing strength of neoliberalism as practiced by the state since the late 1970s. Neoliberalism here appears not just as an economic agenda but as a wholesale displacement of the social as an organising principle within people's lives - explaining away structural inequalities as the result of individual success and failure. In this argument, neoliberal policies under Clinton may differ in inflection but are essentially continuous with those under Reagan and Bush Snr. By contrast, this thesis argues that the prominence of therapeutic culture in the 1990s represents neither the decline of the social nor the rise of individualism. Following Nikolas Rose and the Foucauldian model of governmentality he uses, I argue that, on the contrary, there was, in the Clinton era, a deep concern both for the therapeutic healing of the self and for the reparation of the social fabric in the midst of a supposed “culture war.” However, the subject and object of that reconciliation differ in kind from that of the Reagan era. While Reagan-era neoliberalism associates freedom with the creation of markets in which rational, choice-making individuals can succeed on their own terms, the centrist politics of the Third Way under Clinton presupposes a world in which partnership not competition is the basis for a new ethical citizen-subject. A close reading of both eighties’ Recovery literature and nineties’ New Age literature shows that while the opposing themes of freedom and responsibility are foregrounded in both eras, the context, rationale and ultimately the meaning of these themes is distinct because they address two different kinds of subjectivity. Similarly, while the actual policies of the Clinton era may resemble those of the Reagan era, the rhetorical terrain of government had shifted: from the market unleashed to the community empowered. I argue that an analysis which seeks not to separate but align the personal and political provides the basis for more nuanced cultural history of both therapeutic culture and contemporary American politics.</p>

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Minerals

Cited by 8 publications

References 104 publications

Allometry of sodium requirements and mineral lick use among herbivorous mammals

Allometry of sodium requirements and mineral lick use among herbivorous mammals

Energetics in wild female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis): a behavioral and physiological approach

Self-Help in the 1990s: The Management of the Self in the Clinton Era

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