Adaptation to hot climate and strategies to alleviate heat stress in livestock production

D Renaudeau, A Collin, S Yahav, V De Basilio… - Animal, 2012 - cambridge.org
Despite many challenges faced by animal producers, including environmental problems,
diseases, economic pressure, and feed availability, it is still predicted that animal production …

Climate change and heat stress: Impact on production, reproduction and growth performance of poultry and its mitigation using genetic strategies

M Kumar, P Ratwan, SP Dahiya, AK Nehra - Journal of thermal biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Heat stress is an important environmental determinant which adversely affects the
performance of poultry worldwide. The present communication reviews the impact of heat …

Climate change and the characterization, breeding and conservation of animal genetic resources

I Hoffmann - Animal genetics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Livestock production both contributes to and is affected by climate change. In addition to the
physiological effects of higher temperatures on individual animals, the consequences of …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing and mitigating the impact of heat stress in poultry

SS Pawar, B Sajjanar, VD Lonkar… - Adv. Anim …, 2016 - nexusacademicpublishers.com
Over the years, development of poultry genotypes is driven mainly aiming higher production
at optimal temperatures. However, recent increase in extreme heat wave events and …

Characterizing heat stress on livestock using the temperature humidity index (THI)—prospects for a warmer Caribbean

CHO Lallo, J Cohen, D Rankine, M Taylor… - Regional Environmental …, 2018 - Springer
There is an urgent need to mitigate climate change-induced heat stress in livestock and
poultry in the Caribbean, given the deleterious effects it has on food and nutrition security …

Adaptation to climate change–exploring the potential of locally adapted breeds

I Hoffmann - Animal, 2013 - cambridge.org
The livestock sector and agriculture as a whole face unprecedented challenges to increase
production while improving the environment. On the basis of a literature review, the paper …

Genetic parameters for automatically-measured vaginal temperature, respiration efficiency, and other thermotolerance indicators measured on lactating sows under …

PHF Freitas, JS Johnson, H Wen, JM Maskal… - Genetics Selection …, 2023 - Springer
Background Genetic selection based on direct indicators of heat stress could capture
additional mechanisms that are involved in heat stress response and enable more accurate …

BREEDING AND GENETICS SYMPOSIUM: Resilience and lessons from studies in genetics of heat stress,

I Misztal - Journal of Animal Science, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Production environments are expected to change, mostly to a hotter climate but also
possibly more extreme and drier. Can the current generation of farm animals cope with the …

Impacts of global warming on confined livestock systems for growing-fattening pigs: simulation of heat stress for 1981 to 2017 in Central Europe

C Mikovits, W Zollitsch, SJ Hörtenhuber… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
In the mid-latitudes, pigs and poultry are kept predominantly in confined livestock buildings
with a mechanical ventilation system. In the last decades, global warming has already been …

[PDF][PDF] İklim değişikliğinin tarimsal üretim ve gida güvenliğine etkileri: bilimsel bir değerlendirme

M Türkeş - Ege Coğrafya Dergisi, 2020 - dergipark.org.tr
Öz Bu değerlendirme çalışmasında, önce Dünya'da ve Türkiye'de gözlenen iklim değişikliği
ve değişkenliğine ilişkin hakemli çalışmaların başlıca bulgu ve sonuçlarının alansal ve …