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2023
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Bjarne Bjerg Peter Demeyer Julien Hoyaux Mislav Didara Juha Grönroos Melynda Hassouna Barbara Amon Thomas Bartzanas Renáta Sándor Micheal Fogarty Sivan Klas Stefano Schiavon Violeta Juskiene Miroslav Kjosevski George Attard André Aarnink Vibeke Lind Tadeusz Kuczynski David Fangueiro Monica Paula Marin Stefan Mihina Jože Verbič Salvador Calvet Knut-Håkan Jeppsson Harald Menzi Özge Sizmaz Tomas Norton Biljana Rogic Stepan Nosek Olga Frolova Günther Schauberger Nigel PenlingtonAbstract
This chapter gathers information about the current legal requirements related to the emission of ammonia from animal housing in 24 out of the 27 EU countries and in 7 non-EU countries. Overall, the chapter shows that most of the included countries have established substantial procedures to limit ammonia emission and practically no procedures to limit greenhouse gas emission. The review can also be seen as an introduction to the substantial initiatives and decisions taken by the EU in relation to ammonia emission from animal housing, and as a notification on the absence of corresponding initiatives and decisions in relation to greenhouse gases. An EU directive on industrial emissions from 2010 and an implementation decision from 2017 are the main general instruments to reduce ammonia emission from animal housing in the EU. These treaties put limits to ammonia emissions from installations with more than 2000 places for fattening pigs, with more than 750 places for sows, and with more than 40,000 places for poultry. As an example, the upper general limit for fattening pigs is 2.6 kg ammonia per animal place per year. This chapter indicates that the important animal producing countries in the EU as well as United Kingdom have implemented the EU requirements and that a few countries including the Flemish part of Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Spain have introduced even stricter requirements.
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Vibeke LindAbstract
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Vibeke Lind Angela Dagmar Schwarm Marcello Mele Alice Cappucci Giulia Foggi Özge Sizmaz Eleni Tsiplakou Alberto Stanislao Atzori Joni Van Mullem Nico PeirenAbstract
The aim of this chapter is to summarize dietary measures to mitigate methane at animal level. The chapter briefly summarizes methane measurement techniques. The focus is on the mitigation potential studied in vivo, but when such data were not available, in vitro measurements were included. The chapter covers main dietary ingredients such as forage quality, inclusion of concentrate, grazing management and inclusion of primary (e.g. lipids) and secondary (e.g. tannins) plant compounds as well as chemical inhibitors (e.g. 3-NOP) to the diet. This chapter can be used as a guidance on what to use, at which concentrations in the diets levels (farmers) and how to quantify the effect (researchers).
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Alejandro Belanche Alexander N. Hristov Henk J. van Lingen Stuart E. Denman Ermias Kebreab Angela Dagmar Schwarm Michael Kreuzer Mutian Niu Maguy Eugène Vincent Niderkorn Cécile Martin Harry Archimede Mark McGee Christopher K. Reynolds Les A. Crompton Ali Reza Bayat Zhongtang Yu André Bannink Jan Dijkstra Alex V. Chaves Harry Clark Stefan Muetzel Vibeke Lind Jon M. Moorby John A. Rooke Aurelie Aubry Walter Antezana Min Wang Roger Hegarty V. Hutton Oddy Julian Hill Philip E Vercoe Jean Victor Savian Adibe Luiz Abdalla Yosra A. Soltan Alda Lucia Gomes Monteiro Juan Carlos Ku-Vera Gustavo Jaurena Carlos A. Gomez-Bravo Olga L. Mayorga Guilhermo F.S. Congio David R. Yáñez-RuízAbstract
Enteric methane (CH4) emissions from sheep contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. However, as already available for dairy and beef cattle, empirical models are needed to predict CH4 emissions from sheep for accounting purposes. The objectives of this study were to: 1) collate an intercontinental database of enteric CH4 emissions from individual sheep; 2) identify the key variables for predicting enteric sheep CH4 absolute production (g/d per animal) and yield [g/kg dry matter intake (DMI)] and their respective relationships; and 3) develop and cross-validate global equations as well as the potential need for age-, diet-, or climatic region-specific equations. The refined intercontinental database included 2,135 individual animal data from 13 countries. Linear CH4 prediction models were developed by incrementally adding variables. A universal CH4 production equation using only DMI led to a root mean square prediction error (RMSPE, % of observed mean) of 25.4% and an RMSPE-standard deviation ratio (RSR) of 0.69. Universal equations that, in addition to DMI, also included body weight (DMI + BW), and organic matter digestibility (DMI + OMD + BW) improved the prediction performance further (RSR, 0.62 and 0.60), whereas diet composition variables had negligible effects. These universal equations had lower prediction error than the extant IPCC 2019 equations. Developing age-specific models for adult sheep (>1-year-old) including DMI alone (RSR = 0.66) or in combination with rumen propionate molar proportion (for research of more refined purposes) substantially improved prediction performance (RSR = 0.57) on a smaller dataset. On the contrary, for young sheep (<1-year-old), the universal models could be applied, instead of age-specific models, if DMI and BW were included. Universal models showed similar prediction performances to the diet- and region-specific models. However, optimal prediction equations led to different regression coefficients (i.e. intercepts and slopes) for universal, age-specific, diet-specific, and region-specific models with predictive implications. Equations for CH4 yield led to low prediction performances, with DMI being negatively and BW and OMD positively correlated with CH4 yield. In conclusion, predicting sheep CH4 production requires information on DMI and prediction accuracy will improve national and global inventories if separate equations for young and adult sheep are used with the additional variables BW, OMD and rumen propionate proportion. Appropriate universal equations can be used to predict CH4 production from sheep across different diets and climatic conditions.
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Vibeke LindAbstract
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Salvatore Raniolo Laura Maretto Elena Benedetti del Rio Sylvie Cournut Maeva Cremilleux Benjamin Nowak Audrey Michaud Vibeke Lind Giuseppe Concheri Piergiorgio Stevanato Andrea Squartini Maurizio Ramazin Enrico SturaroAbstract
Grasslands represent key functional ecosystems due to their global contribution to macronutrients cycling and their role as reservoirs of microbial diversity. The strategic importance of these habitats rests on their involvement in carbon and nitrogen fluxes from the atmosphere to the soil, while at the same time offering extensive sites for livestock rearing. In this study the management type, differentiated in pasture or meadow, was investigated as a variable for its possible effects on overall bacterial diversity and specific genes related to functional guilds. Its contribution was compared to that of other variables such as region, soil pH, and soil organic carbon, to rank their respective hierarchies in shaping microbial community structure. A latitudinal gradient across the European continent was studied, with three sampling groups located in Norway, France, and Northern Italy. The applied methods involved 16S DNA metabarcoding for taxonomic classification and determination of the relative abundance of the bacterial component, and quantitative PCR for the genetic determinants of bacterial and archaeal nitrification, intermediate or terminal denitrification, and nitrogen fixation. Results indicated that soil pH exerted the dominant role, affecting high taxonomy ranks and functions, along with organic carbon and region, with whom it partly covaried. In contrast, management type had no significant influence on microbial community structure and quantitative counts of functional genes. This suggests an ecological equivalence between the impacts of pasture and meadow practices, which are both perturbations that share the aspect of vegetation withdrawal by browsing or cutting, respectively.
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