A review of feeding supplementary nitrate to ruminant animals: Nitrate toxicity, methane emissions, and production performance;Une revue de l’ajout de nitrate dans l’alimentation des ruminants : Toxicité aux nitrates, émissions de méthane et performance de production

Canadian Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 557-570

  Lee, Chanhee ^a   Beauchemin, Karen A ^a  

^a LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Methane; Nitrate; Ruminants; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84911892994     PISSN: 00083984     EISSN: 19181825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/CJAS-2014-069     Document Type: Review

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