Climate change and global crop productivity /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2000.
• Subjects: Climatic changes.; Crops and climate.; Crop yields.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Production.; Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy.; Meteorology and Climate.; Glycine (Fabaceae); Gossypium.; Oryza.; Oryza sativa.; Plants.; Sorghum.; Zea mays.; Climatic change.; Climatic factors.; Cotton.; Crop production.; Crop yield.; Ecosystems.; Emission.; Environmental factors.; Grasslands.; Greenhouse gases.; Maize.; Plant breeding.; Rice.; Soil organic matter.; Soyabeans.; Trees.; Vegetables.; Woody plants.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 472 pages) : illustrations, charts, maps; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Following an overview of climate change and global crop productivity, the book is divided into 4 sections: the problem-changing biosphere (climatic change and variability, and agricultural contributions to greenhouse gas emissions); crop ecosystem responses to climatic change (rice, maize and sorghum, soyabean, cotton, root and tuberous crops, vegetable crops, tree crops, productive grasslands, rangelands, crassulacean acid metabolism crops, crop-weed interactions, pests and population dynamics, soil organic matter dynamics, and interactive effects of ozone, ultraviolet-B radiation, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide); mitigation strategies (crop breeding strategies for the 21st century, and role of biotechnology in crop productivity in a changing environment); and economic and social impacts (global, regional and local food production and trade in a changing environment).