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techniques, computations and applications
Deriving heat production from gaseous exchange: validity of the approach -- Design of climate respiration chambers, adjustable to the metabolic mass of subjects -- Metabolic measurement techniques: baselining, mathematical correction of water vapour dilution and response correction -- Modelling gas exchange to partition heat production between fasting, thermic effect of feeding and physical activity in farm animals -- Moving from a complete energy balance towards substrate oxidation: use of stable isotopes -- Indirect calorimetry for elucidating dynamics in energy metabolism of farm animals -- Simultaneous measurement of energy expenditure and protein turnover in pigs -- Quantifying physical activity heat in farm animals -- Calorimeters for enteric methane measurements -- The sulphur hexafluoride tracer technique for estimating enteric methane emissions from ruminants -- Indirect calorimetry: assessing animal response to heat and cold stress -- Indirect calorimetry during incubation of hatching eggs -- Conducting indirect calorimetry studies in companion animals -- Computing energy expenditure from indirect calorimetry data: a calculation exercise
edited by: W.J.J. Gerrits and E. Labussière.
Includes bibliographical references and index.