Can live weight be used as a proxy for enteric methane emissions from pasture-fed sheep?

To test the hypothesis that sheep live weight (LW) could be used to improve enteric methane (CH(4)) emission calculations, mature ewes of 4 different breeds representative of the UK sheep industry were studied: Welsh Mountain, Scottish Blackface, Welsh Mule and Texel (n = 8 per breed). The ewes were...

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Autores principales: Moorby, J. M., Fleming, H. R., Theobald, V. J., Fraser, M. D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4673420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26647754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep17915

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4673420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26647754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep17915

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