Nordic dairy cow model Karoline in predicting methane emissions: 2. Model evaluation

Livestock Science

Volumn 178, Issue , 2015, Pages 81-93

  Ramin, Mohammad ^a   Huhtanen, Pekka ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mechanistic model; Methane; Model evaluation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 84937524473     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2015.05.008     Document Type: Article

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