Modeling Ruminant Digestion and Metabolism

R. L. Baldwin

ISBN 10: 041259160X / ISBN 13: 9780412591600

Editore: Springer Netherlands Mai 1995, 1995

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book fills the gap in the available literature on modelling farm animal systems. This monograph has a broad and comprehensive coverage of ruminant systems and features the application of models in animal biology. It will be of great value to animal scientists, agricultural scientists, modellers and animal physiologists. 592 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Modeling Ruminant Digestion and Metabolism
• Editore: Springer Netherlands Mai 1995
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 041259160X
• ISBN 13: 9780412591600
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 241 L x 160 A x 37 P (millimetri) 241 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 37 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 1045 grammi

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Riassunto

This book fills the gap in the available literature on modelling farm animal systems. This monograph has a broad and comprehensive coverage of ruminant systems and features the application of models in animal biology. It will be of great value to animal scientists, agricultural scientists, modellers and animal physiologists.

Contenuti

Introduction. Modeling principles and terminology. The modeling process I - objective statements, block diagrams, equation forms and parameterization. The modeling process II - solution algorithms, model evaluations and parameter estimation. Animal energetic models. Energy requirements for maintenance and production. Protein and amino acid models. Biology and algebraic models of ruminant digestion. Biology and algebraic models of growth. Biology of lactation. Dynamic models of ruminant digestion. Dynamic models of ruminant adipose tissue metabolism. Dynamic models of ruminant mammary metabolism. Dynamic models of liver and liver metabolism. Mechanistic, dynamic models of growth. Lactation. Evaluation and use of a growth and lactation model. Index.