Scientific progress and mathematical modelling: Different approaches to modelling animal systems

Mechanistic Modelling in Pig and Poultry Production

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 6-21

  France, J ^a   Dijkstra, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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