Livestock and Global Change: Emerging Issues for Sustainable Food Systems

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2013 Dec 18

PMID 24344313

Citations 53

Authors

Mario Herrero

Philip K Thornton

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