A. Allan Degen

Research interests

Publications

• The adaptive strategies of yaks to live in the Asian highlands

  Animal nutrition · 2022 · 10.1016/j.aninu.2022.02.002

• Root exudates enhanced rhizobacteria complexity and microbial carbon metabolism of toxic plants

  iScience · 2022 · 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105243

• Seasonal dynamics of diet–gut microbiota interaction in adaptation of yaks to life at high altitude

  npj Biofilms and Microbiomes · 2021 · 10.1038/s41522-021-00207-6

• Long‐term active restoration of extremely degraded alpine grassland accelerated turnover and increased stability of soil carbon

  Global Change Biology · 2020 · 10.1111/gcb.15361

• Climate warming benefits alpine vegetation growth in Three-River Headwater Region, China

  The Science of The Total Environment · 2020 · 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140574

• Changes in vegetation parameters and soil nutrients along degradation and recovery successions on alpine grasslands of the Tibetan plateau

  Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · 2019 · 10.1016/j.agee.2019.106593

• Sheep and goat milk in pastoral societies

  Small Ruminant Research · 2006 · 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2006.09.020

• Flea species richness and parameters of host body, host geography and host ‘milieu’

  Journal of Animal Ecology · 2004 · 10.1111/j.0021-8790.2004.00883.x

• Immune response to fleas in a wild desert rodent: effect of parasite species, parasite burden, sex of host and host parasitological experience

  Journal of Experimental Biology · 2004 · 10.1242/jeb.01090

• Relationship between host diversity and parasite diversity: flea assemblages on small mammals

  Journal of Biogeography · 2004 · 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01132.x

• Energy cost of ectoparasitism: the fleaXenopsylla ramesison the desert gerbilGerbillus dasyurus

  Journal of Zoology · 2002 · 10.1017/s0952836902001498

• Effects of solar radiation, dietary energy, and time of feeding on thermoregulatory responses and energy balance in cattle in a hot environment.

  Journal of Animal Science · 1998 · 10.2527/1998.76102671x

• Estimation of energy expenditure from heart rate measurements in cattle maintained under different conditions.

  Journal of Animal Science · 1998 · 10.2527/1998.76123054x

• Ecophysiology of Small Desert Mammals

  Adaptations of desert organisms · 1997 · 10.1007/978-3-642-60351-8

• Acacia saligna as a fodder tree for desert livestock and the interaction of its tannins with fibre fractions

  Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture · 1995 · 10.1002/jsfa.2740680111

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