Climatic and technological ceilings for Chinese rice stagnation based on yield gaps and yield trend pattern analysis

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1289-1298

  Zhang, Tianyi ^a   Yang, Xiaoguang ^b   Wang, Hesong ^a   Li, Yong ^c   Ye, Qing ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Guizhou Institute of Mountainous Environment and Climate   (China)

^d JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climatic and technology ceilings; Rice; Trend pattern; Yield gap; Yield stagnation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CROP PRODUCTION; RICE; TREND ANALYSIS; YIELD;

CHINA;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; RICE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84896722056     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12428     Document Type: Article

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