Open Data for Open Questions in Comparative Nutrition

Juliano Morimoto (1) , Mathieu Lihoreau (2)

1 University of Aberdeen
2 CRCA - Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale - UMR5169

Achieving a better understanding of the consequences of nutrition to animal fitness and human health is a major challenge of our century. Nutritional ecology studies increasingly use nutritional landscapes to map the complex interacting effects of nutrient intake on animal performances, in a wide range of species and ecological contexts. Here, we argue that opening access to these hard-to-obtain, yet considerably insightful, data is fundamental to develop a comparative framework for nutrition research and offer new quantitative means to address open questions about the ecology and evolution of nutritional processes.

Mots clés: nutritional ecology; geometric framework for nutrition; performance landscape; open data

Domaines: Alimentation et Nutrition; Biologie animale

Juliano Morimoto, Mathieu Lihoreau. Open Data for Open Questions in Comparative Nutrition. Insects, 2020, 11 (4), pp.236. ⟨10.3390/insects11040236⟩. ⟨hal-03082219⟩