Responses of crop water use efficiency to climate change and agronomic measures in the semiarid area of Northern China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Jingting ^a,b   Ren, Wei ^c,d   An, Pingli ^a,b   Pan, Zhihua ^a,b   Wang, Liwei ^a,b   Dong, Zhiqiang ^a,b   He, Di ^a   Yang, Jia ^d   Pan, Shufen ^d   Tian, Hanqin ^d  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Ecology and Environment Experimental Station Ministry of Agriculture for Field Scientific Observation in Hohhot   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; NITROGEN FERTILIZER; PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER; WATER;

AGRONOMY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP ROTATION; CROPPING SYSTEM; DROUGHT STRESS; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; MAIZE; MILLET; NONHUMAN; OAT; PLANT WATER USE; POTATO; PRECIPITATION; RAPESEED; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL FERTILIZATION; SPRING WHEAT; TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE; CROP; DROUGHT;

CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DROUGHTS; FERTILIZERS; WATER;

EID: 84947474737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137409     Document Type: Article

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