The impact of tropospheric ozone pollution on trial plot winter wheat yields in Great Britain - An econometric approach

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1948-1954

  Kaliakatsou, Evridiki ^a   Bell, J Nigel B ^a   Thirtle, Colin ^a,b   Rose, Daniel ^a   Power, Sally A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Econometrics; Trial plot data; Tropospheric ozone; Winter wheat; Yield loss

Indexed keywords

CEREAL CROP; CROP LOSS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; PLANT BREEDERS; REPEATED MEASURES; TROPOSPHERIC O; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; WHEAT YIELD; WINTER WHEAT;

AIR QUALITY; CROPS; OZONE;

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; ECONOMETRICS; FUMIGATION; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE; WHEAT;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FILTRATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAIN YIELD; NONHUMAN; OZONE LAYER; PLANT LEAF; REDUCTION; RURAL AREA; SENESCENCE; SOIL FUMIGATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TROPOSPHERE; UNITED KINGDOM; WINTER WHEAT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BIOMASS; GREAT BRITAIN; OZONE; TRITICUM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77950075034     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.10.033     Document Type: Article

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