Application of NIRS fecal profiling and geostatistics to predict diet quality of African livestock
Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) and geostatistical techniques were used to predict diet quality of sub-Saharan African (SSA) livestock, and to create cokriged estimated diet quality maps for cattle across a landscape. Rations of native vegetation were stall-fed to cattle (Bos indicus),...
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Texas A&M University
2005
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1644 |