Mathematical Modelling in Animal Nutrition

This is a book about animals, primarily the dairy cow and other domestic species, written by a remarkable group of scientists who create a seamless interface between biology and mathematics. The authors of the chapters are all Faculty Members or Honorary Research Fellows of the recently establish...

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Những tác giả chính: France, James, Kebreab, Ermias
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: CABI 2014
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36746
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Tóm tắt:This is a book about animals, primarily the dairy cow and other domestic species, written by a remarkable group of scientists who create a seamless interface between biology and mathematics. The authors of the chapters are all Faculty Members or Honorary Research Fellows of the recently established Centre for Nutrition Modelling at the University of Guelph. This book marks the creation of the Centre. The subjects the authors address are profoundly important for human and animal well-being on our planet. Our dependence upon livestock for milk, eggs, meat and other products has justifiably aligned animal scientists, geneticists and nutritionists around the challenges of having productive, efficient and healthy animal populations. The Holstein dairy cow is the archetype example. It is arguably one of the most specialized domestic species on the planet, and one that I suspect has been subjected to more mathematical analysis than any other creature. It is premature to say that the dairy cow is the pine cone of animal agriculture, but the work described here moves us significantly in that direction. Lastly, many of the contributions in this book were developed with students. I dedicate this brief foreword to a botany professor who was my mentor many years ago and who taught me about the wonders of plant development. The authors of this volume similarly need to be commended for the efforts they are making to ensure that there will be a next generation of people who will be able to understand animal nutrition in what will undoubtedly be a changing and more complex world.