Climate change impacts of legume-grass swards: implications for organic farming in the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 405-414

  Bloch, Ralf ^a,b   Wechsung, Frank ^c   Heß, Jürgen ^d   Bachinger, Johann ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b Fachhochschule Eberswalde   (Germany)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cropping systems; Drought impact; Vulnerability; Yield modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939873470     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0656-2     Document Type: Article

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