Potentials to reduce methane emissions in sheep
- Publikations-Art
- Kongressbeitrag
- Autoren
- Leberl, P., H. Steingaß and W. Drochner
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2004
- Veröffentlicht in
- Proceedings of the International Conference
- Herausgeber
- Achim Weiske (Ed.)
- Seite (von - bis)
- 278-279
- Tagungsname
- Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture mitigation options and strategies
- Tagungsort
- Leipzig
- Tagungsdatum
- 10.-12.02.2004
- Schlagworte
- greenhouse gas emission, methane emission, sheep
Introduction: Contributing 15 % of the total atmospheric methane (CH4) output in the world ruminants are the largest single anthropogenic CH4 emission source (IPCC 2000a). Among them, sheep are the second most important CH4 producers with a total population CH4 emission of 6,9 teragram per year. This means an individual CH4 production of 7-9 kg per year (Crutzen et al., 1986), which amounts to 6-8 % of the gross energy-intake (GE). Besides the environmental aspect, CH4 emission constitutes an energy loss for the animal.