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LiGAPS-Beef, a mechanistic model to explore potential and feed-limited beef production 1: model description and illustration.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Apr 2019
van der Linden A, van de Ven G W J, Oosting S J, van Ittersum M K, de Boer I J M
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The expected increase in the global demand for livestock products calls for insight in the scope to increase actual production levels across the world. This insight can be obtained by using theoretical concepts of production ecology. These concepts distinguish three production levels for livestock: potential (i.e. theoretical maximum) production, which is defined by genotype and climate only; feed-limited...
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