Climate change impacts on winter chill for temperate fruit and nut production: A review

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 144, Issue , 2012, Pages 218-229

  Luedeling, Eike ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Chill Portions; Chilling Hours; Climate analogues, Dynamic Model; Tree dormancy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; DORMANCY; FRUIT PRODUCTION; HORTICULTURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROCLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUT; ORCHARD; SELECTIVE BREEDING;

EID: 84864769871     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2012.07.011     Document Type: Review

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