Human well-being responses to species’ traits

Invasive species, ecosystem services and human well-being.

Although the effects of invasive alien species (IAS) on native species are well documented, the many ways in which such species impact ecosystem services are still emerging. Here we assess the costs and benefits of IAS for provisioning, regulating and cultural services, and illustrate the synergies and tradeoffs associated with these impacts using case studies that include South Africa, the Gre...

Understanding Human Well - being

A Comparison of the Stability of Measures of Personality Traits, Self-Esteem, Affective Well-Being, and Cognitive Well-being

A variety of statistical models have been developed to examine longitudinal stability and change of individual differences. Kenny and Zautra’s (1995) trait-state-error (TSE) model models stability as a function of stable variance that does not change (trait), moderately stable variance that changes over time (state), and error variance. Applications of this model have been limited to panel stud...

Animal Contributions to Human Health and Well-being

Livestock continue to make a huge and diverse contribution to human health and well-being. About one quarter of the dietary energy and one half of the dietary protein of people in developed countries comes from animal and fish products. Contrary to all the predictions of thirty years ago, animal products are making a larger contribution to feeding people in developing countries than previously....

Synbiotic approaches to human health and well‐being

Synbiotics refer to combinations of probiotics and prebiotics that act synergistically to confer health benefits to the host. As a therapeutic strategy, they provide a gentle yet powerful method for modulating the composition and metabolic output of the human gut microbiota. In the context of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, synbiotics have the potential to act as cost-effective ...