Impact of climate change on the dairy industry in temperate zones: predications on the overall negative impact and on the positive role of dairy goats in adaptation to …

N Silanikove, N Koluman - Small Ruminant Research, 2015 - Elsevier
The environment within which domesticated livestock production, agricultural crops and
related management practices developed over the past 10,000 years is rapidly changing …

Heat stress, a serious threat to reproductive function in animals and humans

R Boni - Molecular Reproduction and Development, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming represents a major stressful environmental condition that compromises the
reproductive efficiency of animals and humans via a rise of body temperature above its …

Reproductive performance of backcross Holstein× Brown Swiss and their Holstein contemporaries under subtropical environmental conditions

MS El-Tarabany, KM El-Bayoumi - Theriogenology, 2015 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to evaluate the reproductive performance of the Holstein
(HO) and their backcross HO× Brown Swiss (BS) under Egyptian subtropical conditions. The …

Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation are not located where they are most needed across the Alps

T Dubo, I Palomo, LL Camacho, B Locatelli… - Regional Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Climate change impacts social-ecological systems in mountainous areas by increasing
certain natural disasters and changing nature's contributions to people (NCP). Nature-based …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal imaging combined with predictive machine learning based model for the development of thermal stress level classifiers

VM Pacheco, RV de Sousa, AV da Silva Rodrigues… - Livestock science, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermal stress in dairy cows has been studied to improve production efficiency and animal
welfare. Several authors have verified the potential of infrared thermography (IRT) as …

Reproductive performance of Brown Swiss, Holstein and their crosses under subtropical environmental conditions

MS El-Tarabany, MAF Nasr - Theriogenology, 2015 - Elsevier
Selection has been emphasized for increasing production traits with ignoring the fertility
traits, which leads to a general loss of reproductive fitness. The aim of this study was to …

Breed and heterosis effects on reproduction and production traits of Girolando cows

MT Vieira, DS Daltro, JA Cobuci - Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
The objective of this study was to evaluate the breed and heterosis effects on reproductive
traits, test-day milk yield, and 305-day milk yield in different lactations of crossbred Girolando …

Effect of environmental temperature on semen quality and seminal plasma metabolites of Mediterranean buffalo bulls

L Sun, Z Cui, S Huang, Q Xue, SU Rehman… - Animal …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
High-quality semen with high viability is critical to improving the in-vitro fertilization
efficiency. This study aimed to understand the effect of ambient temperature and humidity on …

Electrophysiology and Fluorescence Spectroscopy Approaches for Evaluating Gamete and Embryo Functionality in Animals and Humans

R Boni, A Gallo, E Tosti - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review has examined two of the techniques most used by our research group for
evaluating gamete and embryo functionality in animal species, ranging from marine …

[HTML][HTML] A scoping review and systematic map of primary studies assessing heat stress on reproductive, physiological, and productive parameters of farm animals

D Diaz, AM Lopez-Orrantia, AN Camacho… - Veterinaria México …, 2022 - scielo.org.mx
Heat stress induces failures in the physiological mechanisms that regulate the body
temperature of farm animals and causes a loss in their productive and reproductive …