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3-9: Impact of Global Change on
Agriculture
Short Summaries of Recent Research
Adaptation of Plant Systems to CO2
Increase
- Meeting Future Global Food
Demands While Preserving Biodiversity in Agricultural Areas
- Climate Change due to Land-Use
Change
- Impact of Land-Use on
Climate Change
- How Many Miles of Roots in a
Corn Field?
- Increasing
Food Production in a Warmer World
- Changing
the Hydrological Cycle in US Midwest
- Technology
vs. Impact
- Climate Caused
Collapse of the Mayan Civilization
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Impact on Plants caused by Multiple Global Changes
- Impact on Grasslands of Changes in Rainfall Variabilit
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Reducing soil inputs leads to more diversity and better resource
utilization
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Study Shows Organic Farming Is Amazingly Efficient
State by State Estimates of Climate Change Impacts
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Hypoxia, fertilizer and the Gulf of Mexico
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Plant responses to Global Warming.
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Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico
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Global Nitrogen Overload
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Positive Effects of Global Change for Agriculture
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Long-term agroecosystem experiments
- Gulf of Mexico
Hypoxia: Do Iowa Farmers cause the "DeadZone"?
Websites
Crop Production in a
Changing Climate
- Creeping Dead Zones
- The Cost of US
Forest-based Carbon Sequestration (PDF File)
- Long-term
Sensitivity of Soil Carbon Turnover to Warming
- Soil
Biota and Biodiversity: the "Root" of Sustainable
Agriculture
- What
You Can Do
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Sustainable Agriculture. (From the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
Program, University of California-Davis.)
- Changes in cereal production under
three
GCM equilibrium scenarios
- Impact of temperature rise on
robusta coffee in Uganda
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Food and Agriculture Organization
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CIESIN Thematic Guide: Impacts of Global Climate Change on Agriculture.
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Spatial Data in Geographic Information System Format on Agricultural Chemical Use, Land
Use, and Cropping Practices in the United States.
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Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program,
University of California-Davis
- Depositing
Carbon in the Soil Bank
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EPA Agricultural Impacts
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Effects of Ozone Air Pollution on Plants
Additional References
- Cherry. M., 2005:
Ministers agree to action warnings of soaring temperatures in Africa.
Nature, 437, 1217.
- Giles, J., 2005: Hikes in
surface ozone could suffocate crops. Nature, 435, 7.
- Challinor, A. J., and Coauthors, 2005: Simulation of crop
yields using ERA-40: Limits to skill and nonstationarity in weather-yield
relationships. J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 516-531.
- Zhang, Yu; W. Chen, S.L. Smith, D.W. Riseborough, J. Cihlar,
2005: Soil temperature in Canada during the twentieth
century: Complex responses to atmospheric climate change. J. Geophys.
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model. J. Geophys. Res., 110, No. D3, D03113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004JD005160.
- Rosegrant, M. W., and S. A. Cline, 2003: Global food
security: Challenges and policies. Science, 302,
1917-1919.
- Tao, F., M. Yokozawa, Y.Hayashi, and E. Lin, 2003: Terrestrial
water cycle and the impact of climate change. AMBIO, 32(4),
295-301.
- Stone, M.C., R.H. Hotchkiss, and L.O. mearns, 2003: Water yield
responses to high and low spatial resolution climate change scenarios in the
Missouri River Basin. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30,
1186.
- Carbone, G.J., L.O. mearns, T. Mavromatis, E.J. Sadler, and D.
Stooksbury, 2003: Evaluating CROPGRO-Soybean performance for use in climate
impct studies. Agronomy Journal, 95, 537-544.
- Hetherington, A. M., and F. I. Woodward, 2003: The role of stomata
in sensing and driving environmental change. Nature,
424, 901-908.
- Agricultural
Sources of Greenhouse Gases
- Raymond, P.A., and J. J. Cole, 2003: Increase in the
export of alkalinity from North America's largest river.
Science, 301, 88-91.
- Lobell, D. B., and G. P. Asner, 2003: Climate and
management contributions to recent trends in US agricultural yields.
Science, 299, 1032.
- Rosenzweig, C., F. N. Tubiello, R. Goldberg, E. Mills,
and J. Bloomfield, 2002: Increased crop damage in the US from excess
precipitation under climate change. Global Environmental Change,
March 2002
- Kogan, F., 2002: World droughts in the new millennium from AVHRR-based vegetation health
indices. EOS, 83, 557-559.
- Mader, P., A. Fliessbach, D. Dubois, L. Gunst, P. Fried, and
U. Niggli, 2002: Soil fertility and biodiversity in organic
farming. Science, 296, 1694-1697.
- McCarl, B. A., and U. A. Schneider, 2001: Greenhouse gas mitigation
and U.S, agriculture and forestry. Science, 294, 2481-2482.
- Kogan, F. N., 2001: Operational space technology for global
vegetation assessment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 1949-1964.
- Olszyk, D. M., H. G. S. Centeno, L. H. Ziska, J. S. Kern, R. B. Matthews, 2000: Global
climate change, rice productivity and methane emissions: comparison of
simulated and experimental results.Agriculture and Forest Meteorology,
97, 87-101
- Coolsby, Donald A., 2000: Mississippi Basin nitrogen flux believed to cause Gulf
hypoxia. EOS, 81, 321-327.
- Frisvold, G., and Betsey Kuhn, eds., 1999: Global Environmental Change and
Agriculture. Edward Elgar Pub. Co. Cheltenham, UK. 354 pp.
- MacDonald, N. W.,D. L. Randlett, and D. R. Zak, 1999: Soil warming and carbon loss from a Lake
State Spodosol.Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 63, 823-828
- Rasmussen, P. E., K. W. T. Goulding, J. R. Brown, P. R. Grace, H. H. Janzen, and M. Korschens, 1998:
Long-term agroecosystem experiemnts: Assessing agricultural sustainability and global
change. Science, 282, 893-896.
- Malakoff, David, 1998: Death by suffocation in the Gulf of Mexico. Science,
281,
190-192.
- McCarty, G. W., N. N. Lyssenko, and J. L. Starr, 1998: Short-term changes in soil
carbon and nitrogen pools during tillage management transition. Soil
Sci. Soc. Am. J., 62, 1564-1571.
- Drury, C. F., T. O. Oloya, D. J. McKenney, D. G. Gregorich, C. S. Tan, and C. L.
vanLuyk, 1998: Long-term effects of fertilization and rotation on
denitrification and soil carbon. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 62, 1572-1579.
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Animals, and Communities. Longman Group Ltd., Essex, England. 226 pp.
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Change and Plants in East Asia. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, 215 pp.
- Pimentel, et al, 1995: Environmental and Economic Costs of
Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits, Science, 267, 1111-1237.
- Johannsen, Chris J., 1994: Precision Farming: Farming by The Inch. The Earth
Observer, 6, 7K.
- Kaiser, H.M., Drennen, T.E. eds, 1993: Agricultural
Dimensions of Global Climate Change, St. Lucie Press, 311 pp.
- Mackay, D. M., Smith, L. A. 1990: Agricultural Chemicals in
Groundwater: Monitoring and Management in California.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 89, 253-255.
- Parry, M.L., T.R. Carter, and N.T. Konjin, eds, 1988:
The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agriculture: Volume 1: Assessments in Cool
Temperate and Cold Regions, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 876 pp.
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Surface Albedo Changes Caused by Land-use Changes. J. Climate, 16,
1511-1524.
Human-Induced Soil Degradation(Download
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Food import dependency, 1988-1990, technical atlas,
WFS.
Food production growth, technical atlas, WFS.
Food production growth per person, technical atlas, WFS.
Growth in cereal yields, 1963-65 to 1993-95, technical atlas,
WFS.
Irrigated land, technical atlas, WFS.
Economic importance of agricluture, technical atlas, WFS.