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Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis
Climate change includes different dramatic events, and among them, heat stress exposition is the strongest phenomenon affecting the livestock sector. The effects of heat stress events on animal welfare are complex and the economic impacts for the livestock sector are relevant. Management measures ma...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10050400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37008346 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1145610 |
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author | Morgado, Joana Nazaré Lamonaca, Emilia Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano Caroprese, Mariangela Albenzio, Marzia Ciliberti, Maria Giovanna |
author_facet | Morgado, Joana Nazaré Lamonaca, Emilia Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano Caroprese, Mariangela Albenzio, Marzia Ciliberti, Maria Giovanna |
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description | Climate change includes different dramatic events, and among them, heat stress exposition is the strongest phenomenon affecting the livestock sector. The effects of heat stress events on animal welfare are complex and the economic impacts for the livestock sector are relevant. Management measures may contribute to improve the resilience to heat stress, but the extent to which they impact on livestock performances and management strategies depend on the magnitude of the stress conditions. Through a pioneering synthesis of existing knowledge from experiments conducted in controlled conditions, we show that management strategies, both adaptation and mitigation measures, halved the negative impacts on the ruminants' performances and welfare induced by heat stress, but the efficacy is low in extreme conditions, which in turn are more and more frequent. These novel findings emphasize the need to deepen research on more effective adaptation and mitigation measures. |
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spelling | pubmed-100504002023-03-30 Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis Morgado, Joana Nazaré Lamonaca, Emilia Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano Caroprese, Mariangela Albenzio, Marzia Ciliberti, Maria Giovanna Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science Climate change includes different dramatic events, and among them, heat stress exposition is the strongest phenomenon affecting the livestock sector. The effects of heat stress events on animal welfare are complex and the economic impacts for the livestock sector are relevant. Management measures may contribute to improve the resilience to heat stress, but the extent to which they impact on livestock performances and management strategies depend on the magnitude of the stress conditions. Through a pioneering synthesis of existing knowledge from experiments conducted in controlled conditions, we show that management strategies, both adaptation and mitigation measures, halved the negative impacts on the ruminants' performances and welfare induced by heat stress, but the efficacy is low in extreme conditions, which in turn are more and more frequent. These novel findings emphasize the need to deepen research on more effective adaptation and mitigation measures. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10050400/ /pubmed/37008346 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1145610 Text en Copyright © 2023 Morgado, Lamonaca, Santeramo, Caroprese, Albenzio and Ciliberti. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Veterinary Science Morgado, Joana Nazaré Lamonaca, Emilia Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano Caroprese, Mariangela Albenzio, Marzia Ciliberti, Maria Giovanna Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis |
title | Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis |
title_full | Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis |
title_fullStr | Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis |
title_short | Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis |
title_sort | effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: a synthesis |
topic | Veterinary Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10050400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37008346 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1145610 |
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