Climate Change Impact on Livestock: Adaptation and Mitigation - Sejian, Veerasamy; Gaughan, John.; Baumgard, Lance; Prasad, Cadaba; SpringerLink (Online service) (New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
1. Introduction to Concepts of Climate Change Impact on Livestock and its Adaptation and Mitigation -- Part 1: Green House Gas Emission and Climate Change -- 2. Greenhouse Gas, Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: Overview and General Principles -- 3. Contribution of Agriculture Sector to Climate Change -- Part 2: Climate change impact on Livestock -- 4. Impact of climate change on livestock production and reproduction -- 5. Thermal stress alters post-absorptive metabolism during pre- and postnatal development -- 6. Climate change and water availability for livestock: Impact on both quality and quantity -- 7. Impact of climate change on forage availability for livestock -- 8. Impact of climate change on livestock disease occurrences -- 9. Adaptive mechanisms of livestock to changing climate -- Part 3: Livestock role in climate change -- 10. Global Warming: Role of Livestock -- 11. Methane emission from enteric fermentation: Methanogenesis and Fermentation -- 12. Enteric Methane Emission under Different Feeding System -- 13. Estimation methodologies for enteric methane emission in ruminants -- 14. Metagenomic approaches in understanding the rumen function and establishing the rumen microbial diversity -- 15. Opportunities and Challenges for Carbon Trading from Livestock Sector -- Part 4: Methane mitigation strategies in livestock -- 16. Manipulation of rumen microbial eco-system for reducing enteric methane emission in livestock -- 17. Reducing enteric methane emission using plant secondary metabolites -- 18. Ration balancing - A practical approach for reducing methanogenesis in tropical feeding systems -- 19. Alternate H2 Sink for Reducing Rumen Methanogenesis -- 20. GHG emission from livestock manure and its mitigation strategies -- 21. Modelling of GHGs in livestock farms and its significance -- Part 5: Adaptation strategies to improve livestock production under changing climate -- 22. Overview on adaptation, mitigation and amelioration strategies to improve livestock production under the changing climatic scenario -- 23. Shelter design for different livestock from climate change perspective -- 24. Strategies to improve livestock reproduction under the changing climate scenario -- 25. Strategies to improve livestock genetic resources to counter climate change impact -- Part 6: Research and Development Priorities -- 26. Climate change impact on livestock sector- Visioning 2025 -- 27. Conclusions and Researchable Priorities.   .
Keywords: Climate change; Animal physiology; Geographical information systems; Gene expression; Climate Change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Animal Physiology; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Gene Expression