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Research interests
Herbivora nutrition as related to animal productions and welfare. Microbiological and physicochemical characteristics of feedstuffs as also related to micro environmental aspects in swine and horse farms. Horse and donkey milk production, as innovative dairy-food chain for sensitive consumers. 

Scientific activity
Elisabetta M. Salimei is author of more than 250 scientific documents published on national and international journals (listed in http://iris.unimol.it), mainly on animal science and nutrition. She is also author of chapter on international books. 
In particular, ruminant nutrition studies deal with dietary effects on both milk and meat yield and characteristics, also related to the nutritional and welfare status of animals.
As far as the rumen welfare is concerned, physicochemical properties of forages innovative and conventional, hays and silages, have been investigated along with their chemical and physical characteristics as they may affect the rumen environment. 
Besides these research interests, multidisciplinary studies have been focused on the role of feeding installations on physical quality of total mixed ration, also related to milk production and nutritional status of buffaloes. 
In monogastric species, like swine and horses, she studied the relationships between physical characteristics of mixed feeds (particle size, stability and propensity to dustiness), management of animals and farm microenvironment. 
As a contribute to the improvement of animal production in extensive and semi-intensive farms, modeling studies have been carried out for the assessment, from a nutritional point of view, of a sustainable stocking rate. As a further contribute to environmental preservation within a circular economy frame, she also studies the effects of innovative feedstuffs and derivatives from agro alimentary industry as ingredients of buffaloes and dairy cattle diets. Moreover, animal nutrition is also investigated as marker in traceability systems for typical and traditional meat and milk food chains. 
A large body of her more recent researches deals with equine nutrition and management, especially related to milk yield and quality in dairy mares and jennies.
For a more in depth knowledge on donkey’s milk for human consumption, she cooperates in researches on donkey milk characterisation in order to clarify the nutritive and nutraceutical value of this innovative food, with a special attention to its antimicrobial, hormonal, antiinflammatory, probiotic and technological activities.
Besides author of the chapter "Animals that produce dairy foods: donkey" In Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences, Second Edition (© 2011 Elsevier Ltd) and 3rd edition (© 2021 Elsevier Ltd), she is also coauthor of chapter “Horse and donkey milk” in “Milk and Dairy Products in Human Nutrition: Production, Composition and Health 1st ed. (© 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd). 

Member of the European Association of Animal Production (EAAP).
Reviewer for national and international scientific journals, she is responsible of researches funded by both the University of Molise and DiSTAAM, she coordinated a national research project (PRIN 2003) on ass's milk as a hypoallergenic food for infant and is PI of a PRIN 2022 project. 

Citation overview

SCOPUS: 50 pubblicazioni, 16 H-index, 1104 citazioni;

Web of Science Core Collection: 53 pubblicazioni, 14 H-index, 909 citazioni.

Campobasso, March 2024