Climate Change and Livestock Production: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

This book describes the importance of sustainable livestock production from a food security perspective in the changing climate scenario. It covers the amelioration of climate change impacts and describes the various mitigation strategies to reduce enteric methane emissions. The book targets sustainable livestock production by covering diverse concepts of amelioration, mitigation, and policy up-gradation. Further, it examines various adverse impacts of climate change on growth, meat, milk, and reproduction in livestock. Most importantly, the book covers novel aspects of quantifying heat stress response of livestock based on non-invasive methodologies, including infrared thermal imaging, sensor-based applications, hair, urine, and fecal cortisol estimation. Particular emphasis was given to describing the skin-based novel approaches to establish climate resilience in indigenous breeds. The book provides detailed descriptions of alleviating climate change impacts on shelter management, nutritional interventions, and genetics-based strategies involving advanced genomic tools. Lastly, it highlights the livestock species which could be considered ideal climate-resilient animal models to withstand the adversities associated with climate change.

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Dr. Veerasamy Sejian, M.V.Sc & PhD., is a Principal Scientist at ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (NIANP), Bangalore, India. His central thrust area of research is on "Climate Change and Livestock Production." Dr. Sejian is the team leader in establishing the concept of "Multiple stresses impacting small ruminants." His current research focuses on identifying molecular markers for different environmental stresses in small ruminants with the primary focus to develop agro-ecological zone-specific thermo-tolerant breeds. Dr. Sejian has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles, 99 book chapters, 285 invited/lead papers, 175 conference papers, and 22 technical manuals.

Further, Dr. Sejian has published three International Springer books. Dr. Sejian did his first post-doctorate at The Ohio State University, USA. He was bestowed with Endeavour Research Fellowship by the Australian Government to pursue a post-doctorate at The University of Queensland, Australia. For his outstanding contribution to animal science, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has bestowed him with the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award in 2012. Further, Career360, an academic organization in India, had selected Dr. Sejian to be one of the top 10 scientists in India under the environmental sciences category during 2017-18. Dr. Sejian is also listed in the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University, USA, during 2020 and 2021. Dr. Sejian is also listed in the world's top 1% of scientists by PubMed based on the last 10 years of publications in heat stress. In addition, Dr. Sejian is also serving as Field Editor in Springer's International Journal of Biometeorology, Associate Editor in Elsevier's Small Ruminants Research, and Academic Editor in PLOS Climate. He has developed four technologies and also has one patent granted.

Dr. Surinder Singh Chauhan, DVM, PhD., is the Senior Lecturer in the Department of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia, and has 12 years of research and teaching in veterinary and animal science sciences in three countries, including Australia, India, and the USA. Dr. Chauhan obtained his Bachelor of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry and Master of Veterinary Science from CSK, Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur, India. Dr. Chauhan has served the State of Himachal Pradesh, India, for more than 10 years and has provided his services as Senior Veterinary Officer and Veterinary Officer in the various Civil Veterinary Hospitals and Livestock Breeding Farms. He has also served as Assistant Professor in The Department of Veterinary Physiology and Livestock Production and Management, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the CSK, Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur, India. Dr. Chauhan moved to Australia in 2011 following his selection for the prestigious Australian Leadership Award (Ph.D. Scholarship) from the Australian Govt and completed his Ph.D. under the guidance of Prof Frank Dunshea, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne in 2014. Later Dr. Chauhan completed his Post-doctorate in Animal Science (Muscle Biology and Meat Science) at The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. Dr. Chauhan has presented his research at various national and international conferences, including 7 keynote papers, and has published more than 70 refereed research papers. At The University of Melbourne, he is leading the Australia India Collaborations for heat stress mitigation and Sustainable Livestock production funded by the Australian Government Australia-India Council.

Dr. Chinnasamy Devaraj, M.V.Sc & PhD., is a Scientist at the Division of Bioenergetics and Environmental Sciences, ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (NIANP), Bangalore, India. His central thrust area of research is on "Energy metabolism, Environmental Physiology, and Livestock Production." His current research focuses on unraveling the physiological role of adipokines associated with energy metabolism in small ruminants. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has awarded Junior Research Fellowship based on All India entrance for Pursuing M.V.Sc Programme (2004-2006) at National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India. ICAR Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences (Animal and Fisheries Sciences) for 2007-2008. He has published more than 160 research articles, including 25 peer-reviewed articles, 5 book chapters, 45 invited/lead papers, 74 conference papers and 7 technical manuals. Presently, he is serving as a reviewer for the International Journal of Biometeorology and Journal of Agrometeorology.

Dr. Pradeep Kumar Malik, MSc & PhD., is presently wor...

Inhalt
Chapter 1_Impact of climate change on animal production and welfare. -Chapter 2_Livestock meat production from climate change perspectives. -Chapter 3_Livestock meat production from climate change perspectives. -Chapter 4_Adaptation of cattle to heat stress challenges. -Chapter 5_Behavioural plasticity in small ruminants for adapting to heat stress. -Chapter 6_Heat stress associated changes in the immune system related responses in sheep. -Chapter 7_Comparative assessment of thermo-tolerance between indigenous and cross breed cattle. -Chapter 8_Non-invasive methods to quantify heat stress response in dairy cattle. -Chapter 9_Applications of Infrared thermal imaging and rumen boluses for quantifying heat stress in cattle. -Chapter 10_Skin based novel approaches for establishing climate resilience in goats. -Chapter 11_Shelter management of livestock from climate change perspectives. -Chapter 12_Nutritional interventions to ameliorate heat stress effect in dairy cattle. -Chapter 13_Strategies to ameliorate heat stress impacts in sheep. -Chapter 14_ Strategies to ameliorate heat stress effects on sheep reproduction. -Chapter 15_Applications of Genetic selection in breeding for thermo-tolerance in livestock. -Chapter 16_Applications of precision agriculture technologies to improve estimation of livestock greenhouse gas emissions'. -Chapter 17_Enteric methane mitigation in livestock: An Indian perspective. -Chapter 18_` Evaluating the effect of heat stress on the rumen microbial composition of Holstein heifers. -Chapter 19Comparative assessment of rumen microbial diversity in cattle and buffaloes. -Chapter 20Genetic adaptation in Livestock to heat stress challenges. -Chapter 21_ Goat as the ideal climate resilient animal model. *…