Effects of land cover change on moisture availability and potential crop yield in the worlds breadbaskets

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bagley, Justin E ^a,d   Desai, Ankur R ^a   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^b   Foley, Jonathan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

global crop yield; land use change; land atmosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857946500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014009     Document Type: Article

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