Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant

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This monumental text-reference places in clear persepctive the importance of nutritional assessments to the ecology and biology of ruminants and other nonruminant herbivorous mammals. Now extensively revised and significantly expanded, it reflects the changes and growth in ruminant nutrition and rel...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Van Soest, Peter J.
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Comstock Pub., 1994.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Feeds.
Rumen fermentation.
Animal nutrition.
Ruminants > Feeding and feeds.
Rumen.
Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Animal Feed
Rumen
Ruminants > Alimentation.
Aliments pour animaux.
Fermentation dans la panse.
Animaux > Alimentation.
Panse.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry.
Animal nutrition
Feeds
Rumen fermentation
Ruminants > Feeding and feeds
Tierernährung
Wiederkäuer
Ökologie
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ruminants in the world
  • Nutritional concepts
  • Feeding strategies, taxonomy, and evolution
  • Body size and the limitations of ruminants
  • Nonruminant herbivores
  • Plant, animal, and environment
  • The free-ranging animal
  • Forage evaluation techniques
  • Minerals
  • Fiber and physicochemical properties of feeds
  • Carbohydrates
  • Lignin
  • Plant defensive chemicals
  • Forage preservation
  • Function of the ruminant forestomach
  • Microbes in the gut
  • The lower gastrointestinal tract
  • Nitrogen metabolism
  • Intermediary metabolism
  • Lipids
  • Intake
  • Mathematical applications: digestibility
  • Digestive flow
  • Energy balance
  • Integrated feeding systems.

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