Methane emissions from yak (Bos grunniens) steers grazing or kept indoors and fed diets with varying forage:concentrate ratio during the cold season on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 162, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 91-98

  Ding, X Z ^a,b   Long, R J ^a   Kreuzer, M ^c   Mi, J D ^a   Yang, B ^d  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d GANSU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Digestibility; Methane; Roughage proportion; Yak

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS GRUNNIENS; BOVIDAE;

EID: 78549272973     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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