A global analysis of the comparability of winter chill models for fruit and nut trees

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 411-421

  Luedeling, Eike ^a,b   Brown, Patrick H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Chill Portions; Chilling Hours; Chilling requirement; Dynamic Model; Utah Model; Winter chill

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; FRUIT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NUT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TEMPERATURE; FRUIT; INTERNATIONALITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUTS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; UTAH;

EID: 79955030831     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-010-0352-y     Document Type: Article

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