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Spring 2020
Animals live in close association with communities of microbes that play important roles modulating host nutrition, immunity, health, and behavior. Many of these microbes live on or in their animal host, most notably in the vertebrate gut, but microbiome studies now encompass disparate taxa from...
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Diet composition and prey selectivity of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan
DownloadSpring 2019
Plains bison (Bison bison bison) were nearly driven to extinction in the late 19th century due to overhunting and habitat loss, and populations occurring within their historic range and co-existing with natural predators are exceedingly rare. Studies examining gray wolf (Canis lupus) predation on...
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Growing up in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia, Russia: reconstructing childhood diet of Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers
DownloadSpring 2020
van der Haas, Victoria Marie-Louise
While substantial progress has been made in studying hunter-gatherer diets through stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis (δ13C and δ15N), research on diet during childhood remains rather poor. This study uses dentine micro-samples to reconstruct childhood diet of individuals from six...
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Influence of diet on cardiometabolic dysregulation and sarcopenia in children after liver transplantation
DownloadFall 2021
Background: Cardio-metabolic dysregulation (CMD) and sarcopenia have been shown to influence important co-morbid conditions in children after liver transplantation (LTx). In adults with liver disease, suboptimal intake of some nutrients (protein, vitamin D) and high takes of added sugars and...
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Selected Lifestyle Behaviours and Academic Achievement in the Era of the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
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Lifestyle behaviours, including diet, physical activity, sleep, and sedentary behaviour, have been shown to be associated both with health outcomes, including childhood obesity, and academic achievement in children and youth. The improvement of these lifestyle behaviours to prevent chronic...
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The Body as Information: An Emergent Theory of Social Positioning and Information Behaviours in a Virtual Diet Community
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The intersection of diet culture with the rise of online communities has led to the rapid growth of virtual diet communities, including the LoseIt community on Reddit. Using a conceptual framework of information behaviours in virtual communities and social positioning theory, this project studied...
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Window of opportunity: examining gray wolf (Canis lupus) diets and seasonal patterns of predation on wood bison (Bison bison athabascae)
DownloadFall 2023
Prey selection by predators is a complex process, with acquisition strategies varying between generalists and specialists. However, generalist predators like wolves (Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758), can select prey in response to increases in abundance or vulnerability of the prey, often influenced...