Assessing winter survival of forage grasses in Norway under future climate scenarios by simulating potential frost tolerance in combination with simple agroclimatic indices

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1272-1282

  Thorsen, Stig Morten ^a,b   Höglind, Mats ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agro climatic indices; Climate impacts; Frost tolerance; Perennial ryegrass; Timothy

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FORAGE; FROST; FUNGAL DISEASE; GRASS; LIVESTOCK FARMING; OVERWINTERING; SURVIVAL;

NORWAY;

LOLIUM PERENNE; PHLEUM PRATENSE; POACEAE;

EID: 77954761358     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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