Implications for the hydrologic cycle under climate change due to the expansion of bioenergy crops in the Midwestern United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 37, 2011, Pages 15085-15090

  Le, Phong V V ^a   Kumar, Praveen ^a   Drewry, Darren T ^b  

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

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; RAIN; WATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CANOPY ROOT SOIL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CROP; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND USE; MAIZE; MISCANTHUS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOYBEAN; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WATER CYCLE; WEATHER;

AIR; BIOFUELS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TEMPERATURE; WATER CYCLE;

MISCANTHUS; PANICUM VIRGATUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80053087486     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107177108     Document Type: Article

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