Section 20: Definition and Terminology
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The following table contains a list of important definitions for terms and abbreviations used in guidelines and SOP.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ADF | Acid Detergent Fibre |
| ADL | Lignin |
| BCS | Body Condition Score |
| CH4 | Methane |
| CV | Coefficient of Variation |
| DIM | Days In Milk |
| DMI | Dry Matter Intake |
| DMPR | Daily Methane Production Rate |
| EE | Ether Extract |
| Enteric methane | Methane from ruminant livestock generated during microbial fermentation in the rumen and hindgut |
| EOBC | Essential Oils and their Bioactive Compounds |
| FTIR | Fourier-Transform InfraRed |
| GE | Gross Energy intake |
| GHG | Greenhouse gas |
| LMD | Laser Methane Detector |
| ME | Metabolizable Energy |
| MeI | CH4 intensity |
| MeP | CH4 production (liters or grams per day) |
| MeY | CH4 yield |
| MIR | Milk Mid-InfraRed spectoscopy |
| NDF | Neutral Detergent Dibre |
| NDIR | NonDispersive InfraRed |
| PAC | Portable Accumulation Chamber |
| PAIR | PhotoAcustic InfraRed |
| Proxy | Not methane itself, but a substance enabling to measure methane levels indirectly - easy, cheap, accurate, quantitative |
| PY | Protein Yield |
| RMP | Residual Methane Production |
| RMPR | Residual Methane Production Rate |
| RMSPE | Root Mean Square Prediction Error |
| SF6 | SF6 tracer gas technique |
| TMR | Total mixed ration |
| VFA | Volatile Fatty Acid |
| Ym | Methane conversion rate |
