Recent and Future Climate Change and their Implications for Plant Growth

Plant Growth and Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-16

  Viner, David ^a   Morison, James I L ^b   Wallace, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic changes; Climate change; Climate system; Cropping patterns; Plant growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949188205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988695.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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