Modelling nutrient digestion and utilisation in farm animals

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sauvant, D. (Editor), Milgen, J. Van (Editor), Faverdin, P. (Editor), Friggens, N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers : Imprint: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2011.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.

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...

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.