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Climate change and global crop productivity / edited by K.R. Reddy and H.F. Hodges.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Crop yields.
- Crops and climate.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (488 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY : CABI Pub., c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Written by international experts, this book is a comprehensive examination of the potential effects climate change, particularly greenhouses gases, will have on agrosystems. It also reviews the effects such systems have on climate change itself.
- Contents:
- Contributors; Preface; 1 Climate Change and Global Crop Productivity: an Overview; 2 Climatic Change and Variability; 3 Agricultural Contributions to Greenhouse Gas Emissions; 4 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Wheat; 5 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Rice; 6 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Maize and Sorghum; 7 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Soybean; 8 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Cotton; 9 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Root and Tuberous Crops; 10 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Vegetable Crops
- 11 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Tree Crops12 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Productive Grasslands; 13 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Rangelands; 14 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Crops; 15 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Crop/Weed Interactions; 16 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Pests and Population Dynamics; 17 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Soil Organic Matter Dynamics
- 18 Crop Ecosystem Responses to Climatic Change: Interactive Effects of Ozone, Ultraviolet-B Radiation, Sulphur Dioxide and Carbon Dioxide on Crops19 Crop Breeding Strategies for the 21st Century; 20 Role of Biotechnology in Crop Productivity in a Changing Environment; 21 Global, Regional and Local Food Production and Trade in a Changing Environment; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-81187-0
- 9786610811878
- 0-85199-709-0
- OCLC:
- 476051424
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