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Water Quality: Farmers' perception of the importance of the quantity and qualit...
Resende, V.; Moreira, O.; Martins, J.M.; Lucas, R.; Branco, R.Climate change affects livestock systems through direct impacts on the physiology, behavior, production and welfare of animals and indirectly through the availability, composition and quality of food and milk. The aim of this study is to ascertain whether dairy cattle farmers in Portugal (1) consider the issue of ”water scarcity and quality” to be important on dairy cattle farms. Questionnaires were sent to dai...
Qualidade de Água em Explorações de Bovinos de Leite: Impacto na produção, repr...
Resende, V.; Moreira, O.; Martins, J.M.; Lucas, M.R.; Branco, R.O aumento estimado da taxa de crescimento da população mundial sugere que, no futuro, haverá maior procura alimentar, que por sua vez, terá um efeito direto no uso da água para fins agrícolas (Mancosu et al., 2015). Além disso, como resultado do aumento da escassez de água e da seca devido às alterações climáticas (Jiménez et al., 2014), espera-se que a utilização extensiva de água para irrigação ocorra no cont...
Water quality in dairy cattle farms: impact on animal production, reproduction ...
Resende, V.; Moreira, O.; Martins, J.M.; Lucas, M.R.; Branco, R.Climate change is currently one of the great global challenges, affecting in particular the water sector, namely the lack of precipitation and consequent periods of prolonged drought. Drinking water is a scarce resource in many regions of the world. Water is essential for the life of animals, since it intervenes in various metabolic processes. An inadequate water supply could reduce the health and performance o...