Statistical regression models for assessing climate impacts on crop yields: A validation study for winter wheat and silage maize in Germany

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 217, Issue , 2016, Pages 89-100

  Gornott, Christoph ^a   Wechsung, Frank ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate impacts; Germany; Silage maize; Statistical crop yield models; Winter wheat; Yield changes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; MAIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SILAGE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WHEAT;

GERMANY;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84949939584     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.10.005     Document Type: Article

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