Quantifying yield gaps in wheat production in Russia

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Schierhorn, Florian ^a   Faramarzi, Monireh ^b   Prishchepov, Alexander V ^a   Koch, Friedrich J ^a   Üller, Daniel ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

agriculture; crop growth model; intensification; Russia; wheat; yield

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; NITROGEN; WATER SUPPLY;

CROP GROWTH MODEL; INTENSIFICATION; RUSSIA; WHEAT; YIELD;

CROPS;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; GROWTH MODELING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WHEAT;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84919678890     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/8/084017     Document Type: Article

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