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Understanding the seasonality of performance resilience to climate volatility in Mediterranean dairy sheep.
Scientific reports - 21 Jan 2021
Tsartsianidou Valentina, Kapsona Vanessa Varvara, Sánchez-Molano Enrique, Basdagianni Zoitsa, Carabaño Maria Jesús, Chatziplis Dimitrios, Arsenos Georgios, Triantafyllidis Alexandros, Banos Georgios
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As future climate challenges become increasingly evident, enhancing performance resilience of farm animals may contribute to mitigation against adverse weather and seasonal variation, and underpin livestock farming sustainability. In the present study, we develop novel seasonal resilience phenotypes reflecting milk production changes to fluctuating weather. We evaluate the impact of calendar season (autumn,...
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