Main description:

This book describes the importance of sustainable livestock production from a food security perspective in the changing climate scenario. It covers the amelioration of climate change impacts and describes the various mitigation strategies to reduce enteric methane emissions. The book targets sustainable livestock production by covering diverse concepts of amelioration, mitigation, and policy up-gradation. Further, it examines various adverse impacts of climate change on growth, meat, milk, and reproduction in livestock. Most importantly, the book covers novel aspects of quantifying heat stress response of livestock based on non-invasive methodologies, including infrared thermal imaging, sensor-based applications, hair, urine, and fecal cortisol estimation. Particular emphasis was given to describing the skin-based novel approaches to establish climate resilience in indigenous breeds. The book provides detailed descriptions of alleviating climate change impacts on shelter management, nutritional interventions, and genetics-based strategies involving advanced genomic tools. Lastly, it highlights the livestock species which could be considered ideal climate-resilient animal models to withstand the adversities associated with climate change.

Contents:

Chapter 1_Impact of climate change on animal production and welfare. -Chapter 2_Livestock meat production from climate change perspectives. -Chapter 3_Livestock meat production from climate change perspectives. -Chapter 4_Adaptation of cattle to heat stress challenges. -Chapter 5_Behavioural plasticity in small ruminants for adapting to heat stress. -Chapter 6_Heat stress associated changes in the immune system related responses in sheep. -Chapter 7_Comparative assessment of thermo-tolerance between indigenous and cross breed cattle. -Chapter 8_Non-invasive methods to quantify heat stress response in dairy cattle. -Chapter 9_Applications of Infrared thermal imaging and rumen boluses for quantifying heat stress in cattle. -Chapter 10_Skin based novel approaches for establishing climate resilience in goats. -Chapter 11_Shelter management of livestock from climate change perspectives. -Chapter 12_Nutritional interventions to ameliorate heat stress effect in dairy cattle. -Chapter 13_Strategies to ameliorate heat stress impacts in sheep. -Chapter 14_ Strategies to ameliorate heat stress effects on sheep reproduction. -Chapter 15_Applications of Genetic selection in breeding for thermo-tolerance in livestock. -Chapter 16_Applications of precision agriculture technologies to improve estimation of livestock greenhouse gas emissions'. -Chapter 17_Enteric methane mitigation in livestock: An Indian perspective. -Chapter 18_` Evaluating the effect of heat stress on the rumen microbial composition of Holstein heifers. -Chapter 19_Comparative assessment of rumen microbial diversity in cattle and buffaloes. -Chapter 20_Genetic adaptation in Livestock to heat stress challenges. -Chapter 21_ Goat as the ideal climate resilient animal model. -Chapter 21_Strategies to sustain livestock production in the changing climate scenario.