The production of perennial ryegrass and kikuyu pastures in south-eastern Australia under warmer and drier future climate scenarios

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 753-759

  Bell, M J ^a   Cullen, B R ^a   Eckard, R J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Kikuyu; Modelling; Perennial ryegrass; Production

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC ZONE; DAILY TEMPERATURES; DRY MATTERS; DRYLAND; FUTURE CLIMATE; GRAZING SYSTEMS; HAMILTONS; HERBAGE MASS; KIKUYU; LOLIUM PERENNE; METABOLISABLE; MODELLING; PARTS PER MILLIONS; PASTURE PRODUCTION; PERENNIAL RYEGRASS; PLANT GROWTH; SOIL TYPES; SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRODUCTION; RAIN;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84858811828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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