Seaweeds: A sustainable feed source for livestock and aquaculture

Seaweed Sustainability: Food and Non-Food Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 389-420

  Rajauria, Gaurav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Animal feed; Animal nutrition; Aquaculture; Fish; Livestock; Mollusks; Poultry; Seaweed; Shrimps

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943273368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-418697-2.00015-5     Document Type: Chapter

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