Global wheat production potentials and management flexibility under the representative concentration pathways

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 122, Issue , 2014, Pages 107-121

  Balkovič, Juraj ^a,b   van der Velde, Marijn ^c   Skalský, Rastislav ^a,d   Xiong, Wei ^e,f   Folberth, Christian ^a   Khabarov, Nikolay ^a   Smirnov, Alexey ^a   Mueller, Nathaniel D ^g   Obersteiner, Michael ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d Research Institute for Animal Production Nitra   (Slovakia)

^e University of Florida   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EPIC; RCP; Wheat management; Wheat yield; Wheat yield gap; Wheat yield potential; World wheat production

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; FOOD SUPPLY; CLIMATE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; IRRIGATION;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRO-ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EPIC; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; MANAGEMENT FLEXIBILITY; RCP; WHEAT YIELD; WORLD WHEAT PRODUCTION;

IRRIGATION; CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; WHEAT; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP YIELD; CULTIVATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; RAINFED AGRICULTURE;

EASTERN EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84906726046     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.08.010     Document Type: Article

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