Climate change affects winter chill for temperate fruit and nut trees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Luedeling, Eike ^a   Girvetz, Evan H ^b   Semenov, Mikhail A ^c   Brown, Patrick H ^d  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HARVEST; NONHUMAN; NUT; SAFE WINTER CHILL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREE; WINTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FRUIT; NUTS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 79956370899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020155     Document Type: Article

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