The fast-food effect: costs of being a generalist in a human-dominated landscape

• Main Authors: Guerrero-Sanchez, Sergio, Frias, Liesbeth, Saimin, Silvester, Orozco-terWengel, Pablo, Goossens, Benoit
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Geography; Animal Health; Blood Chemistry
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171562
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Agricultural expansion in Southeast Asia has converted most natural landscapes into mosaics of forest interspersed with plantations, dominated by the presence of generalist species that benefit from resource predictability. Dietary shifts, however, can result in metabolic alterations and the exposur...