Climate change impacts on global agricultural land availability

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Xiao ^a   Cai, Ximing ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural land; climate change; global assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952910550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014014     Document Type: Article

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