Climate change impact on livestock sector: Visioning 2025

Climate Change Impact on Livestock: Adaptation and Mitigation

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 479-489

  Prasad, Cadaba S ^a   Sejian, Veerasamy ^a  

^a ICAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL NUTRITION AND PHYSIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Breeding; Climate change; Heat tolerance; Livestock and resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943278924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2265-1_26     Document Type: Chapter

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