Sustaining Mediterranean irrigated agriculture under a changing climate

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 269-275

  Rodríguez Díaz, Juan Antonio ^a   Topcu, Sevilay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Crop water requirements; CROPWAT; GCM; Impact; Spain; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251471116     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/oa.2010.0018     Document Type: Article

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