Global scale climate-crop yield relationships and the impacts of recent warming

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Lobell, David B ^a   Field, Christopher B ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Crop yield; Food production

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD SUPPLY;

CLIMATE TRENDS; CROP YIELD; FOOD PRODUCTION; GLOBAL PRODUCTION; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; LAND-USE DECISIONS; SPATIAL AVERAGE; YIELD RELATIONSHIP;

CROPS;

EID: 34047173047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/2/1/014002     Document Type: Article

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