Climate change and broadacre livestock production across southern Australia. 1. Impacts of climate change on pasture and livestock productivity, and on sustainable levels of profitability

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1440-1455

  Moore, Andrew D ^a   Ghahramani, Afshin ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate change; Grasslands; GRAZPLAN; Livestock; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GRASSLAND; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PASTURE; PROFITABILITY; SIMULATION; TRANSPIRATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP; ECONOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIVESTOCK; METHODOLOGY; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; LIVESTOCK; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84875828002     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12150     Document Type: Article

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