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Overview

Peter Lund is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark. Their research primarily falls within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Agronomy and Crop Science, Genetics, Ecology, Animal Science and Zoology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics of their scientific work encompass:

  • Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows

Lund's recent publications include:

  • Feeding up to 91% concentrate to Holstein and Jersey dairy cows: Effects on enteric methane emission, rumen fermentation and bacterial community, digestibility, production, and feeding behavior (2022, Journal of Dairy Science)
  • Effects of dietary fat, nitrate, and 3-nitrooxypropanol and their combinations on methane emission, feed intake, and milk production in dairy cows (2023, Journal of Dairy Science)
  • Between-cow variation in the components of feed efficiency (2020, Journal of Dairy Science)
  • Prediction of nitrogen excretion from data on dairy cows fed a wide range of diets compiled in an intercontinental database: A meta-analysis (2022, Journal of Dairy Science)
  • The effects of energy metabolism variables on feed efficiency in respiration chamber studies with lactating dairy cows (2020, Journal of Dairy Science)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lund include:

  • Martin Riis Weisbjerg
  • Anne Louise Frydendahl Hellwing
  • Marianne Johansen
  • Mogens Larsen
  • Morten Maigaard

Lund has published extensively in specific venues, notably:

  • Journal of Dairy Science (30 publications)
  • Livestock Science (8 publications)
  • Animal Feed Science and Technology (6 publications)
  • Animal - science proceedings (6 publications)
  • JDS Communications (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Rumen microbial community composition varies with diet and host, but a core microbiome is found across a wide geographical range

    Gemma Henderson;Faith Cox;Siva Ganesh;Arjan Jonker

  • Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen

    Morten Poulsen;Clarissa Schwab;Bent Borg Jensen;Ricarda M. Engberg

  • Prediction of enteric methane production, yield, and intensity in dairy cattle using an intercontinental database

    Mutian Niu;Ermias Kebreab;Alexander N. Hristov;Joonpyo Oh

  • Methane and carbon dioxide ratio in excreted air for quantification of the methane production from ruminants

    J. Madsen;B.S. Bjerg;T. Hvelplund;M.R. Weisbjerg

  • Whey and casein labeled with l-[1-13C]leucine and muscle protein synthesis: effect of resistance exercise and protein ingestion

    Søren Reitelseder;Jakob Agergaard;Simon Doessing;Ida C Helmark

  • Symposium review: Uncertainties in enteric methane inventories, measurement techniques, and prediction models

    A. N. Hristov;Ermias Kebreab;M. Niu;J. Oh

  • Effect of dietary nitrate level on enteric methane production, hydrogen emission, rumen fermentation, and nutrient digestibility in dairy cows

    D.W. Olijhoek;A.L.F. Hellwing;M. Brask;M.R. Weisbjerg

  • Enteric methane production, digestibility and rumen fermentation in dairy cows fed different forages with and without rapeseed fat supplementation

    M. Brask;P. Lund;A.L.F. Hellwing;M. Poulsen

  • Dietary effects on the composition and plant utilization of nitrogen in dairy cattle manure

    P. Sørensen;M. R. Weisbjerg;P. Lund

  • Review: Selecting for improved feed efficiency and reduced methane emissions in dairy cattle.

    P. Løvendahl;G. F. Difford;B. Li;M. G. G. Chagunda

  • Erratum: Rumen microbial community composition varies with diet and host, but a core microbiome is found across a wide geographical range

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  • Holistic Assessment of Rumen Microbiome Dynamics through Quantitative Metatranscriptomics Reveals Multifunctional Redundancy during Key Steps of Anaerobic Feed Degradation.

    Andrea Söllinger;Andrea Söllinger;Alexander Tøsdal Tveit;Morten Poulsen;Samantha Joan Noel

  • Technical note: Test of a low-cost and animal-friendly system for measuring methane emissions from dairy cows

    Anne Louise Frydendahl Hellwing;Peter Lund;Martin Riis Weisbjerg;Maike Brask

  • Effect of expander processing on fractional rate of maize and barley starch degradation in the rumen of dairy cows estimated using rumen evacuation and in situ techniques

    R Tothi;P Lund;M.R Weisbjerg;T Hvelplund

  • Methane production and digestion of different physical forms of rapeseed as fat supplements in dairy cows.

    M. Brask;P. Lund;M.R. Weisbjerg;A.L. F. Hellwing

  • Digestion site of starch from cereals and legumes in lactating dairy cows

    M. Larsen;P. Lund;M.R. Weisbjerg;T. Hvelplund

  • RNA-Seq transcriptomics and pathway analyses reveal potential regulatory genes and molecular mechanisms in high- and low-residual feed intake in Nordic dairy cattle

    M. S. Salleh;G. Mazzoni;J. K. Höglund;D. W. Olijhoek

  • Methane production, rumen fermentation, and diet digestibility of Holstein and Jersey dairy cows being divergent in residual feed intake and fed at 2 forage-to-concentrate ratios.

    D.W. Olijhoek;P. Løvendahl;J. Lassen;A.L.F. Hellwing

  • Estimation of grass intake on pasture for dairy cows using tightly and loosely mounted di- and tri-axial accelerometers combined with bite count

    F. W. Oudshoorn;C. Cornou;A. L. F. Hellwing;H. H. Hansen

  • Rumen and Fecal Microbial Community Structure of Holstein and Jersey Dairy Cows as Affected by Breed, Diet, and Residual Feed Intake.

    Samantha J. Noel;Dana W. Olijhoek;Farran Mclean;Peter Løvendahl

  • The acute effect of addition of nitrate on in vitro and in vivo methane emission in dairy cows

    P. Lund;R. Dahl;H. J. Yang;A. L. F. Hellwing

  • Feces composition and manure derived methane yield from dairy cows: Influence of diet with focus on fat supplement and roughage type

    Henrik Bjarne Møller;Verónica Moset;Maike Brask;Martin Riis Weisbjerg

  • Evaluation of a gas in vitro system for predicting methane production in vivo

    Rebecca Danielsson;Mohammad Ramin;Jan Bertilsson;Peter Lund

  • Dietary Nitrate for Methane Mitigation Leads to Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Dairy Cows

    Søren O. Petersen;Anne Louise Frydendahl Hellwing;Maike Brask;Ole Højberg

  • Digestible NDF is selectively retained in the rumen of dairy cows compared to indigestible NDF

    P. Lund;M.R. Weisbjerg;T. Hvelplund

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Riis Weisbjerg
Martin Riis Weisbjerg Aarhus University
A.L.F. Hellwing
A.L.F. Hellwing Aarhus University
Torben Hvelplund
Torben Hvelplund Aarhus University
Jan Dijkstra
Jan Dijkstra Wageningen University & Research
Pekka Huhtanen
Pekka Huhtanen Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Maguy Eugène
Maguy Eugène INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Christopher K. Reynolds
Christopher K. Reynolds University of Reading
Hélène Soyeurt
Hélène Soyeurt Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Nicolas Gengler
Nicolas Gengler Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech

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