About the Authors

Andreas Diomedes Soteriades

andreas.soteriades@sruc.ac.uk

Affiliation Scotland's Rural College, Future Farming Systems Group, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Alistair William Stott

Affiliation Scotland's Rural College, Future Farming Systems Group, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sindy Moreau

Affiliation Institut de l’Elevage, F-75000 Paris, France

Thierry Charroin

Affiliation Institut de l’Elevage, F-75000 Paris, France

Melanie Blanchard

Affiliation CIRAD – INRA – Montpellier SupAgro, UMR 0868 SEMLET Systèmes d'Elevage Méditerranéens et Tropicaux, F-34000, Montpellier, France

Jiayi Liu

Affiliation Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Philippe Faverdin

Affiliations INRA, UMR 1348 PEGASE, F-35590 St-Gilles, France, Agrocampus-Ouest, UMR 1348 PEGASE, F-35000 Rennes, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ADS AWS PF. Data curation: MB SM TC. Formal analysis: ADS. Funding acquisition: AWS PF. Methodology: ADS AWS JL PF. Project administration: AWS PF. Resources: AWS PF. Software: ADS. Supervision: AWS PF. Validation: ADS AWS JL PF. Visualization: ADS. Writing – original draft: ADS. Writing – review & editing: ADS AWS JL PF.