Climate Change and Livestock Production

Section I: Introduction to emerging concepts and technologies for sustenance. Chapter 1. Introduction to Resilience and Sustainability in Livestock Systems under a Changing Climate. Section II: Climate driven variations in livestock productivity and product composition. Chapter 2. Identification of thermoneutral zone for indigenous cattle in subtropical climate of India. Chapter 3. Genetic mechanisms underpinning the adaptation of small ruminants to diverse climatic conditions. Chapter 4. Effect of Climate Change on Milk Production, Quality Traits and Ameliorative Measures for Enhancing Productivity and Welfare of Dairy Animals. Chapter 5. Heat stress impacts on extensive sheep reproduction: Nutrition-based mitigation strategies. Chapter 6. Climate resilient poultry production. Chapter 7. Influence of Heat Stress on Carcass Characteristics and Meat Quality Traits. Chapter 8. Goats and Climate Change: A Model for Resilient Animal Production Systems. Chapter 9. Physiological and behavioral plasticity of livestock to adapt to heat stress challenges. Section III: Innovative tools for assessing climate resilience in livestock. Chapter 10. Application of OMICS technologies in establishing climate resilience in goats. Chapter 11. Identifying thermoregulatory phenotypes in grazing Merino ewes: physiological and behavioural responses to natural heat exposure. Chapter 12. Rumen bolus technology applications in monitoring core body temperature in ruminants. Section IV: Multidisciplinary approaches for enhancing sustainability in livestock production. Chapter 13. Climate Resilient Technologies and their Adoption in Livestock Farming. Chapter 14. Plant bioactives as multifunctional feed additive for use in livestock diet: functional role and encapsulation technologies. Chapter 15. Innovative Climate-Smart Shelter Designs for Livestock. Chapter 16. Molecular and Physiological Biomarkers for Summer Heat Stress in Buffaloes: Toward Climate-Resilient Dairy Systems. Chapter 17. Innovative Extension Approaches for Climate-Smart Smallholder Livestock System in Developing Countries. Section V: Cutting-edge technologies for enteric methane mitigation in ruminants. Chapter 18. Advances and Novel Approaches in Enteric Methane Mitigation in Ruminant Livestock. Chapter 19. Modeling Livestock Greenhouse Gas Emissions through LCA Frameworks. Section VI: Managing climate-centric disease emergence in livestock. Chapter 20. Impairment of Immune Responses under Heat Stress in Livestock: Mechanisms, Consequences and Mitigation Strategies. Chapter 21. Climate Associated Livestock Disease Management - A One Health Perspective. Section VII: Conclusion and Future Researchable Priorities. Chapter 22. Climate Change and the Murrah Buffalo Production System of India: An Assessment of Sensitivity and Resilience across the Breeding Tract. Chapter 23. Bridging Gaps, Building Futures: Gender, Climate Change, and Livestock Resilience. Chapter 24. Concluding Insights and Pathways Toward Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Livestock Future.