Crop planting date matters: Estimation methods and effect on future yields

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 223, Issue , 2016, Pages 103-115

  Dobor, Laura ^a   Barcza, Zoltán ^a,b   Hlásny, Tomáš ^c,d   Árendás, Tamás ^e   Spitkó, Tamás ^e   Fodor, Nándor ^e  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

^c NATIONAL FOREST CENTRE   (Slovakia)

^d CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^e AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Crop model; Crop yield; Maize; Management; Planting date; Winter wheat

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; GROWING SEASON; MAIZE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOWING DATE; WHEAT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; HUNGARY;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84962828396     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.03.023     Document Type: Article

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