Using an ecosystem model linked to GCM-derived local weather scenarios to analyse effects of climate change and elevated CO2 on dry matter production and partitioning, and water use in temperate managed grasslands

Global Change Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 213-223

  Riedo, Marcel ^a   Gyalistras, Dimitrios ^b   Fischlin, Andreas ^c   Fuhrer, Jurg ^a  

^a Institut fur Umweltschutz und Landwirtschaft   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Downscaling; Elevated CO2; Grassland model; Productivity; Water use

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRASSLAND; PRODUCTIVITY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032998696     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.1999.00221.x     Document Type: Article

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