Changing regional weather-crop yield relationships across Europe between 1901 and 2012

Climate Research

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 195-214

  Trnka, M ^a,b   Olesen, J E ^c   Kersebaum, K C ^d   Rotter R P ^e,f   Brazdil R ^a,g   Eitzinger, J ^h   Jansen, S ⁱ   Skjelvag A O ^j   Peltonen Sainio, P ^e   Hlavinka, P ^a   Balek, J ^a   Eckersten, H ^k   Gobin, A ^l   Vuceti V ^m   Dalla Marta, A ⁿ   Orlandini, S ⁿ   Alexandrov, V ^o   Semeradova D ^a,b   Stepanek P ^a   Svobodova E ^a   Rajdl, K ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^e FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^g MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

ⁱ WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^j NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^k SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^l FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^m METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^o NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (Bulgaria)

more..

Author keywords

Barley; Climatic trend; Drought; Europe; Weather crop yield relationship; Wheat; Yield trend

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGROMETEOROLOGY; BARLEY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; GROWTH RATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WHEAT; FUTURE PROSPECT;

ASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; ITALY;

HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 85018526057     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01426     Document Type: Review

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