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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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Autores principales: Morgado, Joana Nazaré, Lamonaca, Emilia, Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano, Caroprese, Mariangela, Albenzio, Marzia, Ciliberti, Maria Giovanna
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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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
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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.
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Morgado, Joana Nazaré
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Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano
Caroprese, Mariangela
Albenzio, Marzia
Ciliberti, Maria Giovanna
Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis
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title_full Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis
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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
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