Animal Nutrition Science

Author: Dryden, Gordon

Brand: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Edition: Illustrated

Binding: paperback

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 12-08-2008

model number: col. ill

Part Number: col. ill

Details: Product Description
Written for senior undergraduate and graduate students, Animal Nutrition Science introduces the fundamental topics of animal nutrition, in a treatment which deals with terrestrial animals in general. Addressing a wider range of topics than the standard animal nutrition texts, the subjects covered include nutritional ecology and the evolution of feeding styles, nutrients (including minerals, vitamins and water) and their functions, food composition and methods of evaluating foods, mammalian and microbial digestion and the supply of nutrients, control and prediction of food intake, quantitative nutrition and ration formulation, methods of investigating nutritional problems, nutritional genomics, nutrition and the environment, and methods of feed processing and animal responses to processed foods. The many references provide the scientific basis for the text, and give signposts for the reader to extend their enquiry in topics of interest.
About the Author
Gordon Dryden is the principal of a consultancy specializing in animal nutrition, an associate editor of
Animal Production Science, and a member of the IUCN Deer Specialist Group and the IDBC Scientific Steering Committee. He was previously senior lecturer in animal nutrition at the University of Queensland, Gatton, and has since held honorary positions at The University of Queensland and Curtin University of Technology. He has a PhD in animal nutrition from the University of New England, Australia. His research, carried out in Australia and internationally, covers sheep, cattle, deer, horses and pigs; encompassing requirements for energy, protein and water, responses to nutrient supplements, digestion and passage kinetics, animal feeding behaviour, tolerance of water salinity, and near infrared reflectance spectroscopy. He has consulted internationally in animal nutrition and stock feed processing, and the design of tertiary agriculture programs in Australia, New Zealand and Timor Leste.

EAN: 9781845934125

Package Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.5 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English