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- Fills a gap in the market on presenting the main concepts used to define and compute demographic parameters for tropical livestock
- Description of the use of LASER software
- Enhances the understanding of definitions and formulas found in literature and gives guidance in their applications
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Cirad, UMR SELMET (Systèmes d’élevage méditerranéens et tropicaux), Montpellier, France
Matthieu Lesnoff, Samir Messad, Xavier Juanès, Christian Sahut
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Cirad, UMR CMAEE (Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et emergentes), Montpellier, France
Renaud Lancelot
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Montpellier SupAgro, UMR SELMET (Systèmes d’élevage méditerranéens et tropicaux), Montpellier, France
Charles-Henri Moulin
About the authors
Matthieu Lesnoff is a biometrician at CIRAD. He specializes in modelling tropical livestock demography.
Renaud Lancelot is an epidemiologist at CIRAD, with extensive field experience in Africa. He currently coordinates the European EDENext research project on vector-borne diseases.
Charles-Henri Moulin is an animal scientist and professor at Montpellier SupAgro. He specializes in livestock farming systems analysis in Mediterranean (France, Morocco) and tropical (Senegal, Mali, Brazil) areas.
Samir Messad is a biometrician at CIRAD with long experience in tropical livestock data management and analysis.
Xavier Juanès is a computer scientist at CIRAD. He has developed the LASER software and many other information systems for managing tropical livestock data.
Christian Sahut is a computer scientist at CIRAD, specializing in Web platform development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Calculation of Demographic Parameters in Tropical Livestock Herds
Book Subtitle: A discrete time approach with LASER animal-based monitoring data
Authors: Matthieu Lesnoff, Renaud Lancelot, Charles-Henri Moulin, Samir Messad, Xavier Juanès, Christian Sahut
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9026-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Éditions Quæ 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9025-3Published: 06 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0352-7Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9026-0Published: 27 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 99
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Jointly published with Éditions Quæ, R10,78026 Versailles cedex, France
Topics: Zoology, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Animal Ecology