How limiting factors drive agricultural adaptation to climate change

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 200, Issue , 2015, Pages 178-185

  Niles, Meredith T ^a,b   Lubell, Mark ^a   Brown, Margaret ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Farm systems; Limiting factors; Psychological distance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGROECOLOGY; AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; LIMITING FACTOR; PALEOCLIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY;

MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84913557688     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.11.010     Document Type: Article

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