Spatial forecasting of switchgrass productivity under current and future climate change scenarios

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-85

  Behrman, Kathrine D ^a,b   Kiniry, James R ^b   Winchell, Michael ^c   Juenger, Thomas E ^a   Keitt, Timothy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Stone Environmental Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

ALMANAC model; Biofuel; Biomass; Environmental change; Panicum virgatum; Precipitation; Switchgrass; Temperature; United States

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS POWER; CELLULOSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY CROP; FOOD PRODUCTION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GRASS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

GREAT PLAINS; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PANICUM; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANICUM; TEMPERATURE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875767064     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0436.1     Document Type: Article

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