Maize growing duration was prolonged across China in the past three decades under the combined effects of temperature, agronomic management, and cultivar shift

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3686-3699

  Tao, Fulu ^a   Zhang, Shuai ^a   Zhang, Zhao ^b   Rötter, Reimund P ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agriculture; Climate change; Crop; Cultivar; Impacts; Phenology

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84912008534     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12684     Document Type: Article

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