Crop yield response to climate change varies with cropping intensity

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1679-1688

  Challinor, Andrew J ^a,b   Parkes, Ben ^a,c   Ramirez Villegas, Julian ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CGIAR Challenge Program on Climate Change   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Crop model; Crop yield; Food production; Land use

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; FOOD PRODUCTION; LAND USE CHANGE; MAIZE; MODELING; YIELD RESPONSE;

ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84924528344     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12808     Document Type: Article

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