Impact of spatial soil and climate input data aggregation on regional Yield Simulations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Hoffmann, Holger ^a   Zhao, Gang ^a   Asseng, Senthold ^b   Bindi, Marco ^c   Biernath, Christian ^d   Constantin, Julie ^e   Coucheney, Elsa ^f   Dechow, Rene ^g   Doro, Luca ^h   Eckersten, Henrik ^f   Gaiser, Thomas ^a   Grosz, Balázs ^g   Heinlein, Florian ^d   Kassie, Belay T ^b   Kersebaum, Kurt Christian ⁱ   Klein, Christian ^d   Kuhnert, Matthias ^j   Lewan, Elisabet ^f   Moriondo, Marco ^k   Nendel, Claas ⁱ   Priesack, Eckart ^d   Raynal, Helene ^e   Roggero, Pier P ^h   Rötter, Reimund P ^l   Siebert, Stefan ^a   Specka, Xenia ⁱ   Tao, Fulu ^l   Teixeira, Edmar ^m   Trombi, Giacomo ^c   Wallach, Daniel ^e   Weihermüller, Lutz ⁿ   Yeluripati, Jagadeesh ^o   Ewert, Frank ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e CEMAGREF   (France)

^f SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^g THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

ⁱ LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^k CNR   (Italy)

^l FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^m THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

ⁿ FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^o SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; GERMANY; HARVEST; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; SILAGE; SIMULATION; SOIL; SOIL DEPTH; WHEAT; WINTER; AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ORYZA; PROCEDURES;

SOIL; WATER;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ORYZA; SOIL; TRITICUM; WATER; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84963759428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151782     Document Type: Article

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