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List of works by Imke J.M. de Boer

A mechanistic model for electricity consumption on dairy farms: definition, validation, and demonstration

scientific article published on 07 June 2014

Black soldier fly larvae show a stronger preference for manure than for a mass‐rearing diet

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Chopped or long roughage: what do calves prefer? Using cross point analysis of double demand functions.

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Closing the phosphorus cycle in a food system: insights from a modelling exercise

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

Cost-effectiveness of feeding strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming.

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Deriving estimates of individual variability in genetic potentials of performance traits for 3 dairy breeds, using a model of lifetime nutrient partitioning

scientific article published on 14 November 2014

Economic and environmental effects of providing increased amounts of solid feed to veal calves

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Economic values of growth and feed efficiency for fish farming in recirculating aquaculture system with density and nitrogen output limitations: a case study with African catfish (Clarias gariepinus).

scientific article published on December 2014

Economic, ecological, and social performance of conventional and organic broiler production in the Netherlands.

scientific article published in September 2009

Effect of dry period length on milk yield over multiple lactations.

scientific article published on 2 November 2016

Effect of feed-related farm characteristics on relative values of genetic traits in dairy cows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions along the chain

article published in 2015

Effective lactation yield: A measure to compare milk yield between cows with different dry period lengths

scientific article published on 03 February 2016

Effects of dry period length on production, cash flows and greenhouse gas emissions of the dairy herd: A dynamic stochastic simulation model

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

Energy demand on dairy farms in Ireland

scientific article published on 01 August 2013

Environmental Comparison of Biobased Chemicals from Glutamic Acid with Their Petrochemical Equivalents

scientific article published on September 9, 2011

Environmental consequences of processing manure to produce mineral fertilizer and bio-energy

scientific article published on March 28, 2012

Environmental impact of replacing soybean meal with rapeseed meal in diets of finishing pigs

scientific article published on 03 August 2015

Estimating the economic impact of subclinical ketosis in dairy cattle using a dynamic stochastic simulation model.

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

Exploring the value of routinely collected herd data for estimating dairy cattle welfare.

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Factors affecting energy and nitrogen efficiency of dairy cows: a meta-analysis.

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Genetic evaluation methods for populations with dominance and inbreeding

scientific article published on 01 April 1993

Housing and management factors associated with indicators of dairy cattle welfare

scientific article published on 23 November 2014

How social factors and behavioural strategies affect feeding and social interaction patterns in pigs

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Improving the time efficiency of identifying dairy herds with poorer welfare in a population

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

Influence of distance to urban markets on smallholder dairy farming systems in Kenya

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Investment appraisal of technology innovations on dairy farm electricity consumption

scientific article published on 12 December 2014

LiGAPS-Beef, a mechanistic model to explore potential and feed-limited beef production 1: model description and illustration

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LiGAPS-Beef, a mechanistic model to explore potential and feed-limited beef production 2: sensitivity analysis and evaluation of sub-models

scientific article published on 12 July 2018

LiGAPS-Beef, a mechanistic model to explore potential and feed-limited beef production 3: model evaluation

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Methods to determine the relative value of genetic traits in dairy cows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions along the chain

scientific article published on 2 June 2014

On-farm quantification of sustainability indicators: an application to egg production systems.

scientific article published in August 2006

Opinion paper: The role of livestock in a sustainable diet: a land-use perspective

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Pastoralists in a changing environment: The competition for grazing land in and around the W Biosphere Reserve, Benin Republic

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Pre-weaning management of calves on commercial dairy farms and its influence on calf welfare and mortality

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Prediction of additive and dominance effects in selected or unselected populations with inbreeding.

scientific article published in July 1992

Prediction of ammonia emission from dairy barns using feed characteristics part II: Relation between urinary urea concentration and ammonia emission.

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Production, partial cash flows and greenhouse gas emissions of simulated dairy herds with extended lactations

scientific article published on 22 October 2018

Strategies for improving water use efficiency of livestock production in rain-fed systems.

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Technical note: Validation of sensor-recorded lying bouts in lactating dairy cows using a 2-sensor approach.

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

The Need and Potential of Biosensors to Detect Dioxins and Dioxin-Like Polychlorinated Biphenyls along the Milk, Eggs and Meat Food Chain

scientific article published on December 15, 2011

The importance of hormonal circadian rhythms in daily feeding patterns: An illustration with simulated pigs

scientific article published on 14 May 2017

The relevance of spatial scales in nutrient balances on dairy farms

The role of solid feed amount and composition and of milk replacer supply in veal calf welfare.

scientific article published on 23 May 2015

Total loss and distribution of nitrogen and phosphorus in the outdoor run of organic laying hens

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

Traditional ecological knowledge underlying herding decisions of pastoralists

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Unravelling variation in feeding, social interaction and growth patterns among pigs using an agent-based model

scientific article published on 07 April 2018

Visual soil evaluation: reproducibility and correlation with standard measurements

scientific article published in May 2018