Estimating yield response to temperature and identifying critical temperatures for annual crops in the Canadian prairie region

Canadian Journal of Plant Science

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1237-1247

  Robertson, Susan M ^a   Jeffrey, Scott R ^b   Unterschultz, James R ^b   Boxall, Peter C ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Temperature (critical); Yield forecasting

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWING SEASON; NONLINEARITY; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; POPULATION DECLINE; PRAIRIE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; YIELD RESPONSE;

CANADA;

EID: 84887268246     PISSN: 00084220     EISSN: 19181833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/CJPS2013-125     Document Type: Article

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