Livestock production and climate change

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: Livestock production and climate change

Enthält: Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Overview; SECTION I: Livestock Production; 2 Feed Resources vis-à-vis Livestock and Fish Productivity in a Changing Climate; 3 Strategies for Alleviating Abiotic Stress in Livestock; 4 Nitrogen Emissions from Animal Agricultural Systems and Strategies to Protect the Environment; 5 Nutritional Strategies for Minimizing Phosphorus Pollution from the Livestock Industry; 6 Metagenomic Approaches in Harnessing Gut Microbial Diversity; 7 Proteomics in Studying the Molecular Mechanism of Fibre Degradation; SECTION II: Climate Change
8 Perspective on Livestock-Generated GHGs and Climate9 Carbon Footprints of Food of Animal Origin; 10 Carbon Sequestration and Animal-Agriculture: Relevance and Strategies to Cope with Climate Change; 11 Climate Change: Impacts on Livestock Diversity in Tropical Countries; 12 Climate Change: Effects on Animal Reproduction; 13 Climate Change: Impact of Meat Production; 14 Indigenous Livestock Resources in a Changing Climate: Indian Perspective; SECTION III: Enteric Methane Amelioration; 15 Enteric Methane Emission: Status, Mitigation and Future Challenges - An Indian Perspective
16 Thermodynamic and Kinetic Control of Methane Emissions from Ruminants17 Ionophores: A Tool for Improving Ruminant Production and Reducing Environmental Impact; 18 Residual Feed Intake and Breeding Approaches for Enteric Methane Mitigation; 19 Acetogenesis as an Alternative to Methanogenesis in the Rumen; 20 Immunization and Tannins in Livestock Enteric Methane Amelioration; 21 Phage Therapy in Livestock Methane Amelioration; 22 Feed-based Approaches in Enteric Methane Amelioration; 23 Methanotrophs in Enteric Methane Mitigation; 24 Summary; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N
OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Beteiligte: Malik, Pradeep K. [HerausgeberIn]; Bhatta, Raghavendra [HerausgeberIn]; Takahashi, Jun'ichi [HerausgeberIn]; Kohn, Richard A. [HerausgeberIn]; Prasad, C. S. [HerausgeberIn]

Körperschaft: C.A.B. International

Erschienen: Wallingford [u.a.]: CABI Publ., 2015

Umfang: 1 online resource (xi, 395 pages); illustrations (some color), charts

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1079/9781780644325.0000

ISBN: 9781780644332; 9781780644325

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Schlagwörter: Tierproduktion > Klimaänderung

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Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Title from PDF title page (viewed June 4, 2015)

Beschreibung: This 395-paged-book aims to raise awareness among scientists, academics, students, livestock farmers and policy makers of the twin inter-related and inter-dependent complex mechanisms of livestock rearing and climate change. The contents are divided into sections: one on livestock production, one on climate change and one on enteric methane amelioration. In the first section, decisive issues such as current feed and fodder demand, the effect of climate change on feed availability and quality, projections for 2030, water requirement, etc., have been dealt in order. Given the due importance to abiotic stress, nitrogen emissions and phosphorus pollution, well-designed individual chapters are arranged in this section that suggest the appropriate corrective measures for these global glitches. As ruminants thrive mainly on fibrous feed material, particularly in the developing world, the special topics on metagenomics and proteomics are positioned in this section for the effective use of these emerging approaches in fibre degradation. As stated earlier, livestock production and climate change are amalgamated through complex mechanisms, and one affects the other in many ways. Therefore, in the section on climate change, an attempt is made to address the interspersed link under seven chapters, focusing on the carbon footprint of producing food of animal origin, carbon sequestration, livestock diversity, animal reproduction, meat production and the role of indigenous livestock in the changing climatic scenario. Exclusive attention is given to enteric methane emission in the final section for being the critical factor in climate change, and is deliberated under nine different chapters converging on status, thermodynamics, feeding and biological interventions to address the problem and to achieve practically viable reduction levels for minimizing the impact of global warming and saving biological energy that can be directed towards productive functions. It is hoped that the comprehensive, compact and up-to-date information contained in this book will empower animal scientists to cope with the climate change issue.

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