ABSTRACT
Jennie Pryce acknowledges the Gardiner Foundation (Melbourne, Australia) for financial support through the ImProving Herds project. We acknowledge Professor Ben Hayes (University of Queensland) and Dr Matthew Bell (University of Nottingham) for their contribution to the sections on adaptability to climate change. We also thank Dr Mary Abdelsayed (Holstein Australia, Melbourne) for providing us with unpublished data contributing to Fig. 2.
