Climate Change and ENSO Effects on Southeastern US Climate Patterns and Maize Yield

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Mourtzinis, Spyridon ^a   Ortiz, Brenda V ^b   Damianidis, Damianos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; GROWING SEASON; HARVEST; PLANT YIELD; PRECIPITATION;

EID: 84978942593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep29777     Document Type: Article

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