Can impacts of climate change and agricultural adaptation strategies be accurately quantified if crop models are annually re-initialized?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Basso, Bruno ^a   Hyndman, David W ^a   Kendall, Anthony D ^a   Grace, Peter R ^a   Robertson, G Philip ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; RAIN; SOIL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; CROPPING SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GRAIN YIELD; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUTRIENT; PROCESS MODEL; SIMULATION; SOIL WATER CONTENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER AVAILABILITY; AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MAIZE; NEBRASKA; SEASON; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEBRASKA; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84935033237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127333     Document Type: Article

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