Greater diurnal temperature difference, an overlooked but important climatic driver of rubber yield

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 14-21

  Yu, Haiying ^a,b   Hammond, Jim ^a,b   Ling, Shenghai ^c   Zhou, Shuangxi ^c   Mortimer, Peter Edward ^a,b   Xu, Jianchu ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^c Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve Bureaus   (China)

Author keywords

Average temperature; Diurnal temperature difference; Dry rubber content; Dry rubber yield; Relative humidity; Sunshine hours

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE MODELS; LATEXES; RUBBER PLANTATIONS;

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE MODELS; DIURNAL TEMPERATURES; DRY RUBBER CONTENT; MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL ENVIRONMENT; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE REGRESSION; SUNSHINE HOUR; CLIMATIC DRIVERS;

RUBBER; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

DIURNAL VARIATION; DRY MATTER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SHRUB; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RUBBER; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

CHINA; JINGHONG; YUNNAN;

EID: 84906737541     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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