Introduction

Environmental Stress and Amelioration in Livestock Production

Volumn 9783642292057, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-16

  Sejian, Veerasamy ^a  

^a CENTRAL SHEEP AND WOOL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Environmental stress; GHGs; Grazing Ruminants; Livestock Economy; Mitigation; Multiple stress; Production; Reproduction; Stress mitigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949177049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29205-7_1     Document Type: Editorial

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