Regional and global climate projections increase mid-century yield variability and crop productivity in Belgium

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 659-672

  Vanuytrecht, Eline ^a,b   Raes, Dirk ^a   Willems, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Crop productivity; Flemish Region, Belgium; Global climate model (GCM); Multi model ensemble; Regional climate model (RCM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957933739     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0773-6     Document Type: Article

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