Thermal balance of cattle grazing winter range: Model development

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 371-377

  Keren, Elai N ^a   Olson, Bret E ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angle; Climate; Conduction; Convection; Geometry; Insulation layer; Three dimension

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATTLE FARMING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; GRAZING; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEAT LOSS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; NONHUMAN; RADIATION ABSORPTION; THERMODYNAMICS; WINTER;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33646838980     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2005.11.029     Document Type: Article

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