Yield trends under varying environmental conditions for sorghum and wheat across Australia

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 228-229, Issue , 2016, Pages 276-285

  Potgieter, Andries B ^a   Lobell, David B ^b   Hammer, Graeme L ^a   Jordan, David R ^a   Davis, Peter ^c   Brider, Jason ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Crop stress; Environment types; Food security; Yieldgains

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; MAIZE; MARKET CONDITIONS; RICE; SORGHUM; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

AUSTRALIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84979201705     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.07.004     Document Type: Article

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