Modelling nutrient digestion and utilisation in farm animals / / edited by D. Sauvant [and three others].

For more than 30 years, modelling has been an important method for integrating, in a flexible, comprehensive and widely applicable way, basic knowledge and biological concepts on digestion and metabolism in farm animals. The purpose of this book is to present the 'state of art' in this are...

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Place / Publishing House:Wageningen, Netherlands : : Wageningen Academic Publishers,, [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (430 p. 4 illus. in color.)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Advances in methodological aspects of modeling
  • Part 2: Modeling feeding behavior and regulation of feed intake
  • Part 3: Modeling fermentation, digestion and microbial interactions in the gut
  • Part 4: Modeling interactions between nutrients and physiological functions: consequence on product quality and animal health. Part 5: Extrapolating from the animal to the herd
  • Part 6: Modeling the environmental impact of animal production
  • Index.