Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

Sadie S

This paper describes the RUMINANT model, which has been used for livestock MRV. RUMINANT is an IPCC Tier 3 digestion and metabolism model for ruminants. The model estimates production of milk and meat, manure production, N excretion, and methane emissions from feed using stoichiometric calculations.


Herrero M, Havlik P, Valin H, Notenbaert A, Rufino MC, Thornton PK, Blummel M, Weiss F, Grace D, Obersteiner M

2013

PNAS