Observed trends in winegrape maturity in Australia

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2707-2719

  Webb, L B ^a,b   Whetton, P H ^b   Barlow, E W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Harvest; Phenology; Viticulture; Winegrapes

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; GLOBAL WARMING; HARVESTING; PHENOLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VINEYARD; VITICULTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

VITACEAE; VITIS VINIFERA;

EID: 79959984986     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02434.x     Document Type: Article

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