Climate change and global crop productivity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by K.R. Reddy and H.F. Hodges

• Pubblicazione: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY, : CABI Pub., c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (488 p.)
• Disciplina: 630/.2/515
• Soggetto topico: Climatic changes; Crop yields; Crops and climate
• Altri autori: HodgesH. F ReddyK. R (K. Raja)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Climate change and global crop productivity
• ISBN: 1-280-81187-0; 9786610811878; 0-85199-709-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780025803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II