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BRIEF COMMUNICATION: A versatile sheep respiration chamber system for measurement of methane emission

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C.S. PINARES-PATIÑO, P. LOVEJOY, C. HUNT, R. MARTIN, G. MOLANO, G.C. WAGHORN and H. CLARK

Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production 68: 29-30

Globally, the single most important source of greenhouse gas emissions from grazing systems is enteric methane (CH₄) arising as a by-product of the fermentation of feed in the reticulo-rumen of ruminants (Clark et al., 2005). Methane is implicated in global warming and in countries where livestock constitutes a major emission source such as New Zealand, international commitments are driving research to develop emission reduction technologies, for which accurate measurements of CH₄ emissions are ...Continued

Keywords: NZSAPAB; respiration chamber; sheep; methane

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