Data rich yield gap analysis of wheat in Australia

Field Crops Research

Volumn 197, Issue , 2016, Pages 97-106

  Hochman, Zvi ^a   Gobbett, David ^a   Horan, Heidi ^a   Navarro Garcia, Javier ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural Production System sIMulator (APSIM); Global Yield Gap and Water Productivity Atlas (GYGA); Spatial framework; Water limited yield (Yw); Yield gap

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH ASIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84989834065     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2016.08.017     Document Type: Article

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