Projecting yield changes of spring wheat under future climate scenarios on the Canadian Prairies

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 123, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 651-669

  Qian, Budong ^a   De Jong, Reinder ^a   Huffman, Ted ^a   Wang, Hong ^b   Yang, Jingyi ^c  

^a OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b SWIFT CURRENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^c HARROW RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP YIELD; GROWTH RESPONSE; WHEAT;

CANADA; PRAIRIE PROVINCES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84955726484     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-015-1378-1     Document Type: Article

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