Crop response to elevated CO2 and world food supply. A comment on "Food for Thought..." by Long et al., Science 312:1918-1921, 2006

European Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 215-223

  Tubiello, Francesco N ^a,f   Amthor, Jeffrey S ^b   Boote, Kenneth J ^c   Donatelli, Marcello ^d   Easterling, William ^e   Fischer, Gunther ^f   Gifford, Roger M ^g   Howden, Mark ^g   Reilly, John ^h   Rosenzweig, Cynthia ⁱ  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chambers; Climate change; CO2 crop response; Experimental and model data; FACE; World food supply

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; FOOD SUPPLY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; YIELD RESPONSE;

EID: 33847334806     PISSN: 11610301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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