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Effects of roughage characteristics on enteric methane emission in dairy cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2016

A. Bannink  and
J. Dijkstra
A. Bannink*
Affiliation:
Livestock Research, Wageningen UR, De Elst 1, 6708 WD, Wageningen, The Netherlands
J. Dijkstra
Affiliation:
Animal Nutrition Group, Wageningen University, De Elst 1, 6708 WD, Wageningen, The Netherlands
*
†E-mail: [email protected]
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enteric methanedairy cowsroughage characteristicsmodelling
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Advances in Animal Biosciences , Volume 7 , Special Issue 3: Proceedings of LiveM 2016: Modelling Grassland-Livestock Systems Under Climate Change , November 2016 , pp. 229 - 230
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