Animal thermal comfort index for the state of Paraíba, Brazil: trend, influencing factors, and mitigating measures

Analysis of the climatic trends and heat stress periods for ruminants rearing in Bangladesh

“…The THI was initially introduced by Thom (1958) to measure heat stress in humans. Currently, it is employed to evaluate heat stress in several animal species ( Lallo et al, 2018 ) along with to measure the influence of climatic conditions on animal well-being ( da Silva et al, 2022 ). …”

“…This strategy has the advantage of minimizing the influence of outliers below the slope. It is determined using the following equation, adopted from da Silva et al (2022) : …”

“…Thus, wind speed (W) and solar duration (SD) were examined as potential influences on THI, along with T as well as RH. The calculation of the proportional contributions of every climate variable followed a prescribed method by da Silva et al (2022) .…”

“…Environmental temperature, air moisture, and direct sunlight are the primary determinants that require animals to adopt to maintain thermal balance. Neglecting these measures can lead to a decline in production performance ( da Silva et al, 2022 ). Environmental variables greatly impact the thermal comfort indices, along with other related factors exhibit temporal variations in specific locations due to climate change.…”

“…The Mann–Kendall (MK) evaluation is a widely used non-parametric test for identifying patterns in time series data. It has been used to identify trends in several climate factors, including temperature, evapotranspiration, and rainfall ( da Silva et al, 2022 ).…”