Radiation interception and utilization by wheat/maize strip intercropping systems

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 204, Issue , 2015, Pages 58-66

  Wang, Zikui ^a   Zhao, Xining ^a,b   Wu, Pute ^a,b   He, Jianqiang ^a   Chen, Xiaoli ^a   Gao, Ying ^a,b   Cao, Xinchun ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Fraction of radiation intercepted; Modeling; Radiation transmission; Radiation use efficiency; Wheat maize intercropping

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HARVESTING; INTERCROPPING; LIGHT EFFECT; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MAIZE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84922430113     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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