Predicting silage maize yield and quality in Sweden as influenced by climate change and variability

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B: Soil and Plant Science

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-165

  Eckersten, Henrik ^a   Herrmann, Antje ^b   Kornher, Alois ^a   Halling, Magnus ^a   Sindhøj, Erik ^a   Lewan, Elisabet ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass; cultivar; dry matter content; simulation model; solar radiation; starch content; temperature; water; weather

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84856093390     PISSN: 09064710     EISSN: 16511913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064710.2011.585176     Document Type: Article

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