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Handbook of climate change and agroecosystems impacts, adaptation, and mitigation
Record details
- ISBN: 9781848166561 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1848166567 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781848166554
- ISBN: 1848166559
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xii, 440 p.) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) - Publisher: London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., c2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Climate change and agroecosystems : key issues / Daniel Hillel and Cynthia Rosenzweig -- The role of soils in climate change / Daniel Hillel and Cynthia Rosenzweig -- Fertilizing change : carbon-nitrogen interactions and carbon storage in land ecosystems / Jerry M. Melillo ... [et al.] -- Crop yield potential, yield trends, and global food security in a changing climate / Kenneth G. Cassman, Patricio Grassini and Justin van Wart -- Effects of CO₂ and temperature on crops : lessons from SPAR growth chambers / David Fleisher ... [et al.] -- Lessons from FACE : CO₂ effects and interactions with water, nitrogen and temperature / Bruce A. Kimball -- Testing effects of climate change in crop models / Kenneth J. Boote ... [et al.] -- Use of crop models for climate-agricultural decisions / James W. Jones ... [et al.] -- Climate models for agricultural impacts : scales and scenarios / Linda O. Mearns -- Precipitation : the thousand-pound gorilla in crop response to climate change / Thomas R. Sinclair -- Global climate change and carbon dioxide : assessing weed biology and management / Lewis H. Ziska -- Climate change effects on plant-pest-natural enemy interactions / Andrew Paul Gutierres, Luigi Ponti and Gianni Gilioli -- Climate impacts on agriculture in the United States : the value of past observations / Jerry L. Hatfield -- African agriculture in 2050 : climate change impacts and adaptation options / David B. Lobell -- Guidelines for adapting agriculture to climate change / William E. Easterling -- Soil carbon and climate change / Rattan Lal -- Quantification and decision support tools for US agricultural soil carbon sequestration / Keith Paustian, Stephen M. Ogle and Richard T. Conant -- Role of biochar in mitigation of climate change / Johannes Lehmann, James E. Amonette and Kelli Roberts -- Trade-offs associated with using soil carbon sequestration as climate change mitigation / Angela Y.Y. Kong ... [et al.] -- Soil carbon sequestration for mitigating climate change : distinguishing the genuine from the imaginary / David S. Powlson, Andy P. Whitmore and Keith W.T. Goulding -- Economics of agricultural impacts, adaptation, and mitigation / John M. Reilly and Elodie Blanc -- Climate change and agroecosystems : main findings and future research directions / Daniel Hillel and Cynthia Rosenzweig. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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