Contains 31 chapters, grouped into six sections, developed from papers presented at a satellite meeting of the 9th International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology, held in South Africa in October 1999.
The role of thermodynamics in controlling rumen metabolism; simple allometric models to predict rumen feed passage rate in deomstic ruminants; modelling production and portal appearance of volatile fatty acids in cows; modelling energy expenditure in pigs; simulation of the development of adipose tissue in beef cattle; modelling nutrient digestion and utlization in dairy cows fed tropical forages - the validation test; a pig model for feed evaluation.