Weather impacts on crop yields - Searching for simple answers to a complex problem

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Siebert, Stefan ^a   Webber, Heidi ^a   Rezaei, Ehsan Eyshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXTREME EVENT; FOOD SECURITY; INDEX METHOD; POLICY MAKING; SOIL MOISTURE; TROPICAL REGION; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

ARGENTINA; CANADA; CENTRAL ASIA; FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 85029147677     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7f15     Document Type: Review

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