Quantifying the Effects of Methane Mitigation Strategies on Microbial Rumen Fermentation
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Quantifying the Effects of Methane Mitigation Strategies on Microbial Rumen Fermentation
PIs: Alex Sessions
Research Team: Elliot Mueller and Yeonsoo Park
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
Climate Science Initiative and Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Initiative
2023 Explorer grant
We propose to build and calibrate a bio-isotopic model of carbon flow in the bovine rumen, calibrated with novel carbon isotope measurements of organic acids, that will help us understand mechanistically why feeding Asparagopsis to cattle so dramatically reduces their methane output.