Adaptation strategies for maize cultivation under climate change in Iran: Irrigation and planting date management

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 265-284

  Moradi, Rooholla ^a   Koocheki, Alireza ^a   Nassiri Mahallati, Mehdi ^a   Mansoori, Hamed ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adaptation; DSSAT; GCM; HadCM3; IPCM4

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; CULTIVATION; FOOD PRODUCTION; GROWING SEASON; HADLEY CELL; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LEAF AREA INDEX; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MAIZE; PHENOLOGY; SOWING DATE;

IRAN; RAZAVI KHORASAN;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84871948088     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-012-9410-6     Document Type: Article

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