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  1. Exploration of Bluetooth technology to assess ewe and lamb social behaviour as an indicator of welfare
  2. Virtual fencing systems for grazing livestock: impacts on welfare and production issues
  3. Beef Production in the Southwestern United States: Strategies Toward Sustainability
  4. Relationships between feeding behaviour, activity, dominance and feed efficiency in finishing beef steers
  5. Assessment of circadian rhythm of activity combined with random regression model as a novel approach to monitoring sheep in an extensive system
  6. Effect of biochar produced from different biomass sources and at different process temperatures on methane production and ammonia concentrations in vitro
  7. Impacts of using a precision livestock system targeted approach in mountain sheep flocks
  8. Liveweight loss associated with handling and weighing of grazing sheep
  9. Impacts of farmers' management styles on income and labour under alternative extensive land use scenarios
  10. The impact of divergent breed types and diets on methane emissions, rumen characteristics and performance of finishing beef cattle
  11. Automated monitoring of urination events from grazing cattle
  12. Restocking extensive mountain areas with young ewes—does origin matter?
  13. Bovine Host Genetic Variation Influences Rumen Microbial Methane Production with Best Selection Criterion for Low Methane Emitting and Efficiently Feed Converting Hosts Based on Metagenomic Gene Abundance
  14. Impact of adding nitrate or increasing the lipid content of two contrasting diets on blood methaemoglobin and performance of two breeds of finishing beef steers
  15. A comparison of methane emissions from beef cattle measured using methane hoods with those measured using respiration chambers
  16. Photosensitisation of livestock grazing Narthecium ossifragum: Current knowledge and future directions
  17. The effects on cow performance and calf birth and weaning weight of replacing grass silage with brewers grains in a barley straw diet offered to pregnant beef cows of two different breeds
  18. The rumen microbial metagenome associated with high methane production in cattle
  19. Methane emissions from two breeds of beef cows offered diets containing barley straw with either grass silage or brewers’ grains
  20. Determination of the absolute accuracy of UK chamber facilities used in measuring methane emissions from livestock
  21. Effectiveness of nitrate addition and increased oil content as methane mitigation strategies for beef cattle fed two contrasting basal diets1
  22. Use or Delight? History of Conflicting Hill Land Uses in Scotland – A Review
  23. Cattle Responses to a Type of Virtual Fence
  24. Evaluation of the laser methane detector to estimate methane emissions from ewes and steers1
  25. Archaeal abundance in post-mortem ruminal digesta may help predict methane emissions from beef cattle
  26. Characterisation of extensive beef cattle systems: Disparities between opinions, practice and policy
  27. Hydrogen and methane emissions from beef cattle and their rumen microbial community vary with diet, time after feeding and genotype
  28. Does diverse grazing behavior of suckler cows have an impact on predicted methane emissions?1
  29. Methane emissions from beef and dairy cattle: Quantifying the effect of physiological stage and diet characteristics1
  30. Reduced Sheep Grazing and Biodiversity: A Novel Approach to Selecting and Measuring Biodiversity Indicators
  31. Interactions between profit and welfare on extensive sheep farms
  32. Characterisation of farmers’ responses to policy reforms in Scottish hill farming areas
  33. Chapter 3. Impacts of Agriculture upon Greenhouse Gas Budgets
  34. Structural assessment of the Scottish stratified sheep production system
  35. Future of the hills of Scotland: Stakeholders’ preferences for policy priorities
  36. An automated sensor-based method of simple behavioural classification of sheep in extensive systems
  37. Effect of different grazing management systems on the herbage mass and pasture height of a Nardus stricta grassland in western Scotland, United Kingdom
  38. Integrating hill sheep production and newly established native woodland: achieving sustainability through multiple land use in Scotland
  39. Farmers' opinions on welfare, health and production practices in extensive hill sheep flocks in Great Britain
  40. The perception of the welfare of sheep in extensive systems
  41. Projected effect of alternative management strategies on profit and animal welfare in extensive sheep production systems in Great Britain
  42. Impacts of livestock in regenerating upland birch woodlands in Scotland
  43. Local area farming Plans — a common reality for farmers and conservationists in the Scottish Highlands?
  44. Prediction of plant diversity response to land-use change on Scottish agricultural land
  45. Multi-trait selection indexes for sustainable UK hill sheep production
  46. A genetic analysis of maternal behaviour score in Scottish Blackface sheep
  47. Modelling populations of Erigone atra and E. dentipalpis (Araneae: Linyphiidae) across an agricultural gradient in Scotland
  48. Genetic characterization of heather (Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull) subject to different management regimes across Great Britain
  49. Small ruminants in environmental conservation
  50. A note on the circadian rhythm and feeding behaviour of sheep fitted with a lightweight GPS collar
  51. A comparison of growth and carcass traits in Scottish Blackface lambs sired by genetically lean or fat rams
  52. Animal welfare and sustainability of production under extensive conditions—A European perspective
  53. Genotype × environment interactions for early growth and ultrasonic measurements in hill sheep
  54. A genetic analysis of early growth and ultrasonic measurements in hill sheep
  55. Real-time ultrasonic scanning in sheep: the results of the first year of its application on farms in south-west Scotland
  56. The effects of improved management based on ultrasound scanning of scottish blackface ewes from a high hill flock
  57. Inhibition of the Antibacterial Lactoperoxidase-Thiocyanate-Hydrogen Peroxide System by Heat-Treated Milk
  58. Implants for Grass Finished Store Blackface Lambs