The Threats Posed by Environmental Factors to Farm Animals
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Farm Animal Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 358
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A significant percentage of farms run activities related to animal production. It provides nearly 50% of global production and an even greater percentage of agricultural commercial production. This production is related to the use by humans of a small number of animal species, called farm animals, which include equines, cattle, cervids, pigs, sheep, goats, fur animals, poultry and honey bees. These animals are bred solely to obtain commercial production or draft power and to obtain reproductive material.
Over thousands of years of breeding, farm animals have been crossbred in such a way that desirable traits (milk production, meatiness, fur quality, number of eggs laid, etc.) are strengthened and undesirable ones (aggression, phenotypic variability, low productivity) are eliminated from the population. As a result of human selection, farm animals have also lost the genes responsible for many traits, including resistance to unfavorable environmental factors. This phenomenon is a particular threat in cases of intensive animal breeding in small areas, where parasites and pathogens can easily spread, and in the face of threats posed by human activity—climate change, chemical (e.g., plant protection products, antibiotics, heavy metals) and physical (electromagnetic field, lighting or temperature disturbing the natural cyclicity) pollution, or globalization-related issues (spread of pathogenic factors to new areas).
In this Special Issue, which is a continuation of the previous Special Issue, we still intend to focus on the threats posed by environmental factors (both natural and anthropogenic) to farm animals. This is a particularly current and very broad topic, covering many fields of science, such as biology, chemistry, parasitology, veterinary medicine, biophysics, toxicology, etc. Therefore, we invite you to submit manuscripts to our Special Issue. Both original research articles and reviews will be accepted.
Dr. Anna Koziorowska
Dr. Bartosz Piechowicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- farming animals
- environmental factors
- natural or anthropogenic factors
- animal production
- influence on animals
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