Agricultural adaptation to climatic variation

Climatic Change

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-29

  Smit, B ^a   McNabb, D ^b   Smithers, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELLING APPROACH;

CANADA, ONTARIO;

EID: 0029662513     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00140511     Document Type: Article

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