Techniques and Strategies to Quantify and Reduce Greenhouse Gases Emissions from Livestock
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal System and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2022) | Viewed by 10995
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Current environmental concerns require each sector to make efforts to mitigate its greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions. In this context, more and more research is dedicated to acquiring such values more easily, with the purpose of elaborating strategies to reduce them. The agricultural sector and more especially livestock production are also concerned. As reference techniques to measure GHGs from animals are expensive and time consuming, alternative techniques are developed. The values collected help to define strategies to reduce GHGs emissions.
The aim of this Special Issue of the open-access journal Animals will be dedicated to advances of techniques to measure or to estimate indirectly (by proxies) GHGs emissions from livestock as well as their application to reduce GHGs emissions in practice (nutrition, genetic, etc.).
Original research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and model studies related to the theme of are welcome. Example topics include, but are not limited to:
New techniques to measure GHGs emissions from livestock to acquire them more easily
- Development of proxies for indirect estimation of GHGs from livestock at large scale
- Potential to merge reference datasets acquired with different reference methods
- Studies about evolution of GHGs at animal, herd or regional scale
- Integration of measured or estimated values in LCA
- Strategies to reduce GHGs emissions from livestock
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Dr. Amélie Vanlierde
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Greenhouse gases
- livestock
- measurement
- proxies
- life cycle analysis
- nutrition
- genetics
- databases
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