Untangling relative contributions of recent climate and CO2 trends to national cereal production in China

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Xiong, Wei ^a   Holman, Ian ^b   Lin, Erda ^a   Conway, Declan ^c   Li, Yue ^a   Wu, Wenbin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cereal production; China; climate change; relative contribution

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LASERS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RAIN;

AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS; CEREAL PRODUCTION; CHINA; CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84871839541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044014     Document Type: Article

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