Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant (eBook)

Peter J. Van Soest (Autor)

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2018 | 2., Second Edition
488 Seiten
Comstock Publishing Associates (Verlag)
978-1-5017-3235-5 (ISBN)

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This monumental text-reference places in clear persepctive the importance of nutritional assessments to the ecology and biology of ruminants and other nonruminant herbivorous mammals. Now extensively revised and significantly expanded, it reflects the changes and growth in ruminant nutrition and related ecology since 1982.

Among the subjects Peter J. Van Soest covers are nutritional constraints, mineral nutrition, rumen fermentation, microbial ecology, utilization of fibrous carbohydrates, application of ruminant precepts to fermentive digestion in nonruminants, as well as taxonomy, evolution, nonruminant competitors, gastrointestinal anatomies, feeding behavior, and problems fo animal size. He also discusses methods of evaluation, nutritive value, physical struture and chemical composition of feeds, forages, and broses, the effects of lignification, and ecology of plant self-protection, in addition to metabolism of energy, protein, lipids, control of feed intake, mathematical models of animal function, digestive flow, and net energy.

Van Soest has introduced a number of changes in this edition, including new illustrations and tables. He places nutritional studies in historical context to show not only the effectiveness of nutritional approaches but also why nutrition is of fundamental importance to issues of world conservation. He has extended precepts of ruminant nutritional ecology to such distant adaptations as the giant panda and streamlined conceptual issues in a clearer logical progression, with emphasis on mechanistic causal interrelationships.

Peter J. Van Soest is Professor of Animal Nutrition in the Department of Animal Science and the Division of Nutritional Sciences at the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2018
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 220 x 220 mm
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agribusiness • animal behavior • Animal breeding • animal care • Animal diseases • Animal Genetics • animal husbandry • Animal nutrition • Animal Nutrition studies • Animal Science • Animal Science class • Animal Science student • Animal Science studies • applied animal scientists • applied veterinary medicine • basic ruminant nutrition • biology of ruminants • books about taking care of farm animals • Digestive physiology • farm animal care • farm animal studies • farm animal vet • farm animal veterinary medicine • feeding ruminants • feed science • graduate animal studies students • husbandry reference book • large animal veterinary • mammal zoology • nonruminant herbivorous • ruminant husbandry • Ruminant Nutrition • ruminant nutritional ecology • ruminant nutrition and metabolism • the ruminant animal • upper division animal science undergraduates • Veterinary Medicine • Veterinary Science
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-3235-8 / 1501732358
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-3235-5 / 9781501732355