Methane emissions from ruminant livestock; are they important and can we reduce them?
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1179-4577,0369-3902
DOI: 10.33584/jnzg.2009.71.2774