Prof. Garcia | ENG 1121 - OL78 | Fall 2020

Micro-Activity # 13: Drafting the Annotations

Article Title: Effects of climate changes on animal production and sustainability of livestock systems

Author: A. Nardone, B.Ronchi, N.Lacetera, M.S.Ranieri, U.Bernabucci

URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871141310000740

Website Title: Livestock Science

Date published: March 02, 2010

The main point of this article is to inform the reader of the issues with animal production and sustainability of livestock systems, have formed due to the effects of Climate change. The article talks about the drought caused by climate change. It states ” Although, the effects of global warming will not be adverse everywhere, a relevant increase of drought is expected across the world affecting forage and crop production.” . The article also touches on the process of desertification and its effects. The article states ” The process of desertification will reduce the carrying capacity of rangelands and the buffering ability of agro-pastoral and pastoral systems” . After this statement the article also goes into depth on the different systems used in agriculture. This article provides a lot of insight into climate change and its effect on climate changes on animal production and sustainability of livestock systems.

1 Comment

  1. Ruth Garcia

    To revise for the annotated bibliography, you need to do the following:
    1. format you citation into an MLA reference citation
    2. include the other parts of the annotated bibliography. If you look at the guidelines, you will see that you also need an evaluation, an analysis of the author’s style, and quotations.
    3. Finally, you mention several things the article touches upon, but for what purpose? What is the point of including this information?

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