Emulating global climate change impacts on crop yields

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 499-525

  Oyebamiji, Oluwole K ^a   Edwards, Neil R ^a   Holden, Philip B ^a   Garthwaite, Paul H ^a   Schaphoff, Sibyll ^b   Gerten, Dieter ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CO2 fertilization effect; crop yield; distance weighted regression; Principal components

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940202632     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X14568248     Document Type: Article

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