Impacts of biofuel cultivation on mortality and crop yields

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 492-496

  Ashworth, K ^a,b   Wild, O ^a   Hewitt, C N ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROMETEOROLOGY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS POWER; CARBON BUDGET; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; ISOPRENE; MORTALITY; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TROPOSPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EUROPE;

EID: 84877058795     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1788     Document Type: Article

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