Handbook of Agricultural Productivity

Volume II: Animal Productivity

Miloslav Rechcigl

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781315893761
• eBook ISBN: 9781351089760
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Veterinary Medicine

The greatest challenge of our time is to produce sufficient food ot keep pace with the rapidly growing population. In the opinion of experts, during the next 25 years there will be a need for as much food as was produced in the entire history of mankind to date. Of the various measures available, improvement in agricultural productivity is judged as the ultimate means of augmenting food production and supplies. In this Handbook, an international team of experts consider the most important factors affecting production of both crops and livestock. This Handbook is intended as a scientific guide to practitioners and students, as well as to researchers, who should find here stimulating ideas for further exploration.

Index

A

ABA, see Abscissic acid

Abelmaschus esculent us, I: 191

Abronia fragrans, I: 186

Abscissic acid

evaporative demand stress affecting, I: 364, 365

production in environmental change, I: 348

Acacia, I: 108

Acer negundo, see Box elder

Acerspecies, see Maple

Acer tulipae, I: 293

Acetaldehyde, II: 109

Acetic acid, II: 109

Acetone, II: 109

Acetylene, I: 355, 375

Acids, II: 109

Adenohypophysis, II: 56

Aeration, see Soil aeration

African swine fever, II: 321, 347

Agrobacter/um, I: 291

Agropyron species, see Crested wheatgrass, Western wheatgrass, Wheatgrass

Agrostemma gitbago, see Corncockle

Agrostisalba, I: 316

Agrostis canina, I: 186

Agrotis ipsilon, I: 296

Agrostis palustris, see Bentgrass

Agrostis tenuis, I: 186

Agrostis vulgaris, I: 186

Air pollution

affecting animals, II: 107, 140

beryllium as pollutant, II: 356

control of, II: 360

deposition of pollutants in animal resporatory

tract, II: 111

effects of certain pollutants on vegetation, I: 352

fluoride as pollutant, I: 389—393;

II: 357

ionization of air for reduction of, II: 115

mercury as pollutant, II: 360

minor pollutants, I: 393

mixed gases, I: 393;

II: 108, 112, 140

oxidants other than ozone, I: 382

ozone as pollutant, I: 376—382

photochemical reactions forming pollutants, I: 376

plant as monitors, I: 350

pollutants, I: 376;

II: 354, 360

of animals’ environments, II: 108, 354

protection of plants against, I: 351

sources of, I: 375

sulfur dioxide as pollutant, I: 383—388;

II: 360

Alcohols, II: 109

Aletes acaulis, I: 186

Alfalfa, see also Herbage plants

air pollution and, I: 377, 381, 384—387, 390, 393

climate and, II: 272—273

crop rotation, I: 273—275, 279—281, 285—287, 289, 295, 297—299, 301

effect of temperature, I: 14

environmental stress, I: 352, 360, 361

irrigation, II: 293

nitrogen and, II: 278

organic reserves, I: 315, 316, 321—323, 332—334

photosynthesis,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Physical Factors
• Climate and Animal Productivity
• Photoperiodism and Productivity of Domesticated Animals
• Effects of Cold on Animal Production
• Effect of Heat on Animal Productivity
• Air Environment and Animal Performance
• Gravity and Animal Productivity
• Housing and Animal Productivity
• Physiological Factors
• Behavior of Livestock in Relation to their Productivity
• Nutrition and Animal Productivity
• Castration and Animal Productivity
• Agricultural Practices
• Agricultural Productivity: Potential And Constraints
• Chemicals For Crop And Livestock Protection
• Stress
• Effects of Disease on Animal Productivity
• Microbial Disease and Animal Productivity
• Effects of Pollution on Animal Productivity
• Index