New multi-model approach gives good estimations of wheat yield under semi-arid climate in Morocco

Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 157-167

  Bregaglio, Simone ^a   Frasso, Nicolò ^a   Pagani, Valentina ^a   Stella, Tommaso ^a   Francone, Caterina ^a   Cappelli, Giovanni ^a   Acutis, Marco ^a   Balaghi, Riad ^b   Ouabbou, Hassan ^c   Paleari, Livia ^a   Confalonieri, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (Morocco)

^c Centre Regional de la Recherche Agronomique de Settat   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Crop monitoring; CropSyst; Drought; Food security; Water stress; WOFOST

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGROMETEOROLOGY; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT STRESS; FOOD SECURITY; SEMIARID REGION; WATER STRESS; WHEAT;

MOROCCO;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 84920759598     PISSN: 17740746     EISSN: 17730155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13593-014-0225-6     Document Type: Article

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