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Animal Research

Vol. 53 No. 5 (September-October 2004)

Special Issue: Modelling of herd functioning in France and in tropical areas.
To describe, analyse, and simulate for understanding, supporting and teaching

• Foreword     p. 343
  S. Ingrand (INRA SAD) and B. Faye (CIRAD EMVT)
  Abstract | PDF file (66.0 KB)



• Modelling the performance of the beef cow to build a herd functioning simulator     p. 347
  Jacques Agabriel and Stéphane Ingrand
  Abstract | PDF file (409 KB) | References



• A dynamic model to analyse the bio-technical and socio-economic interactions in dairy farming systems on the Réunion Island     p. 363
  Kamel Louhichi, Véronique Alary and Patrice Grimaud
  Abstract | PDF file (1.45 MB) | References



• A discrete events simulation of flock dynamics: a management application to three lambings in two years     p. 383
  Sylvie Cournut and Benoît Dedieu
  Abstract | PDF file (1.05 MB) | References



• A viability model to assess the sustainability of mixed herds under climatic uncertainty     p. 405
  Muriel Tichit, Bernard Hubert, Luc Doyen and Didier Genin
  Abstract | PDF file (302 KB) | References



• Spatially explicit models of group foraging by herbivores: what can Agent-Based Models offer?     p. 419
  Bertrand Dumont and David R.C. Hill
  Abstract | PDF file (118 KB) | References



• A mathematical model of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) within-herd outbreaks for economic evaluation of local control strategies: an illustration from a mixed crop-livestock system in Ethiopian highlands     p. 429
  Matthieu Lesnoff, Géraud Laval, Pascal Bonnet and Asseguid Workalemahu
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• Modelling as a tool for the teaching of livestock dynamics     p. 439
  Charles-Henri Moulin, Fabienne Blanc, Pauline Ezanno and François Bocquier
  Abstract | PDF file (474 KB) | References

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