Anaerobic Digestion and Methane Emissions in Ruminants
A special issue of Methane (ISSN 2674-0389).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Animal Nutrition; Methane Emissions; Nonlinear Regression; Nanobiotechnology
Interests: gas fermentation; single cell protein; biopolymers; polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB); polyhydroxyalkaoates (PHA); climate change mitigation and adaptation
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Dear Colleagues,
There is no doubt that grazing animals, including sheep, cattle, bovines, and goats, emit large amounts of climate-active gasses, particularly methane. In the rumen, propionate formation creates a pathway for hydrogen to be utilized and is a competing alternative hydrogen sink, while acetate and butyrate release pure hydrogen. Methanogenesis is the primary pathway to remove excess hydrogen in the rumen. In ruminants, methane is a major source of energy loss, and it has a significant effect on global warming, being a major source of anthropogenic non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, efforts to reduce enteric methane production from ruminants not only limit emissions of greenhouse gases, but also enhance the production performance of the animals. Considering the importance of the topic and the rapid growth of knowledge in this area, this Special Issue brings together and discusses the most recent findings, including feed additives that can be used as methane inhibitors.
Dr. Valiollah Palangi
Dr. Maximilian Lackner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- anaerobic digestion
- greenhouse gas
- methane emission
- feed additives
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