Adapting wheat sowing dates to projected climate change in the Australian subtropics: Analysis of crop water use and yield

Crop and Pasture Science

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 974-986

  Cammarano, Davide ^a,f,g   Payero, Joś ^b   Basso, Bruno ^a,c,d   Stefanova, Lydia ^e   Grace, Peter ^a,d  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Natural Science Bldg ^*  (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Florida State University   (United States)

^g University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; crop modelling; crop water stress; evapotranspiration; irrigation requirements; water use efficiency; wheat.

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; RAINFALL; SOWING DATE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WATER STRESS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WHEAT;

AUSTRALIA; DARLING DOWNS; QUEENSLAND;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84871658814     PISSN: 18360947     EISSN: 18365795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/CP11324     Document Type: Article

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