Kansas State University

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Joseph 1xbet online sports betting , research assistant professor in the Division of 1xbet on at Kansas State University, examined how climate change during the next 50 years will affect grazing animals such as 1xbet online sports betting and cattle in the Great Plains. The study, "Long-term 1xbet online sports betting sensitivity of grazer performance: a cross-site study," was recently published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS 1xbet online sports betting .

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Craine analyzed a data set of 290,000 weights, ages and sexes collected from 22 1xbet online sports betting herds throughout the U.S. The information came from herds owned by the university's Konza Prairie Biological Station; Oklahoma's Nature Conservancy; Turner Enterprises; and other federal, state, nonprofit and commercial entities. The organizations kept annual records of each animal in the herd and matched the data with the climates of the sites.

Based on differences in sizes of 1xbet online sports betting across herds, Craine found that during the next 50 years, future generations of 1xbet online sports betting will be smaller in size and weigh less. Climate is likely to reduce the nutritional quality of grasses, causing the animals to grow more slowly.

"We know that temperatures are going to go up," 1xbet online sports betting . "We also know that warmer grasslands have grasses with less protein, and we now know that warmer grasslands have smaller grazers. It all lines up to suggest that climate change will cause grasses to have less protein and cause grazers to gain less weight in the future."

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"The difference in temperature between those two states is around 20 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about three times the projected increase in temperatures over the next 75 years," Craine said. "That's a pretty extreme difference and beyond the worst-case scenario. But it is a clear indicator that long-term warming will affect 1xbet online sports betting and is something that will happen across the U.S. over the next 50-75 years."

While the economic cost of smaller 1xbet online sports betting might not be so great, Craine said that warming might also shrink the revenue of cattle producers.

Although compiling and analyzing data about cattle weights has yet to be done, findings for 1xbet online sports betting may translate to the more than 90 million cattle in the U.S., Craine said. Cattle and 1xbet online sports betting share similar physiologies and weight gain for both is typically limited by protein intake.

If the same reduction in weight gain applies to cattle as 1xbet online sports betting , every temperature increase of one-and-a-half degrees Fahrenheit could cause roughly billion in lost income for cattle producers, Craine said. The reduction would come from either the cost of protein supplements needed to maintain similar weight gains before climate change, or from a loss of income because of reduced weights. Scientists predict that temperatures in the U.S. will increase by 6-8 degrees Fahrenheit during the next 75 years.

The study is an offshoot of 1xbet online sports betting 's ecology research with the Konza Prairie Biological Station, which is jointly owned by The Nature Conservancy and Kansas State University. Managed by the university's Division of Biology, the Konza Prairie spans about 8,600 acres.