Climate change impacts on crop yield: Evidence from China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 499, Issue , 2014, Pages 133-140

  Wei, Taoyuan ^a   Cherry, Todd L ^a,b   Glomrød, Solveig ^a   Zhang, Tianyi ^c  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Agriculture; China; Climate change impact; Crop yield; Food security; Non linear elasticity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; ELASTICITY; FOOD SUPPLY;

CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CROP YIELD; FOOD SECURITY; NONLINEAR ELASTICITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; FOOD SECURITY; HARVESTING; MAIZE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RICE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; WHEAT;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELASTICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOOD SECURITY; HARVEST; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRECIPITATION; RICE; WHEAT; AGRICULTURE; CATERING SERVICE; CROP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHINA;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FOOD SUPPLY;

EID: 84906731100     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.035     Document Type: Article

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