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Goat hair as a bioindicator of environmental contaminants and adrenal activation during vertical transhumance.
Front Vet Sci
November 2023
School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Matelica, Italy.
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- Autochthonous livestock breeds are essential for agriculture and food security, particularly in the Italian Alps, where they are raised using traditional farming methods that include both outdoor grazing and indoor care.
- The study investigates how goats respond to the stress of transitioning from indoor housing to alpine pastures by measuring changes in their hair for trace elements, heavy metals, and cortisol, which indicate dietary changes and stress levels.
- Results showed an increase in arsenic levels during grazing, likely due to environmental factors, while other elements decreased, and cortisol levels were monitored to assess animal welfare throughout the transhumance process.
Pastoralism in the highest peaks: Role of the traditional grazing systems in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the alpine Himalaya.
PLoS One
May 2021
Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Rangelands cover around half of the planet's land mass and provide vital ecosystem services to over a quarter of humanity. The Himalayan rangelands, part of a global biodiversity hotspot is among the most threatened regions in the world. In rangelands of many developing nations policies banning grazing in protected areas is common practice.
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Transbound Emerg Dis
July 2021
Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Fasciola hepatica is a liver parasite of ruminants whose distribution is determined by its intermediate host, the freshwater snail Galba truncatula. In Europe, F. hepatica is mostly associated with lowlands.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBig dairy data to unravel effects of environmental, physiological and morphological factors on milk production of mountain-pastured Braunvieh cows.
R Soc Open Sci
July 2020
Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
The transhumance system, which consists in moving animals to high mountain pastures during summer, plays a considerable role in preserving both local biodiversity and traditions, as well as protecting against natural hazard. In cows, particularly, milk production is observed to decline as a response to food shortage and climatic stress, leading to atypical lactation curves that are barely described by current lactation models. Here, we relied on 5 million monthly milk records from over 200 000 Braunvieh and Original Braunvieh cows to devise a new model accounting for transhumance, and test the influence of environmental, physiological and morphological factors on cattle productivity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFShift in the cow milk microbiota during alpine pasture as analyzed by culture dependent and high-throughput sequencing techniques.
Food Microbiol
October 2020
Research and Innovation Centre, Food Quality and Nutrition Department, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all' Adige, TN, Italy. Electronic address:
In the present study, two groups of cows from a permanent lowland farm (PF) were divided during summer and reared in the PF or in a temporary alpine farm (ALP), respectively. Microbiological analyses were performed with the objective to investigate the microbial evolution of milk before, during, and after summer transhumance comparing, in particular, the two groups of cows to determine whether the alpine pasture could directly influence the milk microbiota. A significant increase of all microbial groups was registered in milk samples collected in the ALP.
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