Calculation of demographic parameters in tropical livestock herds: A discrete time approach with LASER animal-based monitoring data

Calculation of Demographic Parameters in Tropical Livestock Herds: A Discrete Time Approach with LASER Animal-Based Monitoring Data

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-99

  Lesnoff, Matthieu ^a   Lancelot, Renaud ^b   Moulin, Charles Henri ^a   Messad, Samir ^a   Juanès, Xavier ^a   Sahut, Christian ^a  

^a UMR SELMET   (France)

^b UMR ASTRE   (France)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9026-0     Document Type: Book

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