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David B Lobell1, Michael J Roberts, Wolfram Schlenker

  • 1Department of Environmental Earth System Science and Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 3, 2014
PubMed
概括

适应气候变化面临挑战,因为玉米产量显示干旱敏感性增加,尽管整体产量增加. 农业学转变,比如更高的播种密度,可以提高平均产量,但不能提高对干旱压力的抵抗力.

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