Impacts of present and future climate variability on agriculture and forestry in the humid and sub-humid tropics

Climatic Change

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 73-116

  Zhao, Yanxia ^a,b   Wang, Chunyi ^a   Wang, Shili ^a   Tibig, Lourdes V ^c  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Phllippine Atmospheric   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; DROUGHT; FLOODS; FORESTRY; STORMS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LIVESTOCKS; STRESS-RELATED DEATHS; SUB-HUMID TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; TROPICAL REGION;

AGRICULTURE; DROUGHT; FARM CROPS; FLOODS; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 21744457420     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-5938-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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