Climate Change and Crops

Singh, Sunil Kumar

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“…Although thermal requirements for growth differ among plants species, the observed climate warming has already contributed significantly to earlier occurrence of phenophases of common plant species, including herbs, agricultural crops, fruit trees, and forests (Schleip et al, 2009), with important consequences for plant health and biodiversity. For existing agricultural crop production systems, the crop cycle has shortened due to increasing temperatures in recent decades (Fraga et al, 2012;Olesen et al, 2011Olesen et al, , 2017.…”

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“…There is mounting evidence that the warming has already strongly modified agricultural crop production systems (Olesen et al, 2011(Olesen et al, , 2017Schleip et al, 2009) as well as ecosystems location and composition in Europe (Pautasso, 2012), beyond phenological development stages. Extreme drought and heat stress conditions had detrimental impacts on agricultural crop production in southern Europe, where moderate to extreme problems have been experienced (Fontana et al, 2015;Olesen et al, 2011;Zampieri et al, 2017).…”

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“…Extreme drought and heat stress conditions had detrimental impacts on agricultural crop production in southern Europe, where moderate to extreme problems have been experienced (Fontana et al, 2015;Olesen et al, 2011;Zampieri et al, 2017). The observed warming has also promoted the shift of crop species to areas, which were previously constrained by either a too short growing season length (GSL) or by unreachable thermal requirements to finish the crop growth cycle (Hannah et al, 2013;Marx et al, 2017;Olesen et al, 2011Olesen et al, , 2017Park et al, 2016). A well-documented example is the shift in the climatic suitability for wine production, which was spatially mostly confined to Mediterranean, southern maritime, and Pannonian regions in Europe (Hannah et al, 2013), and which expanded in the recent period in several regions of central and western Europe (Spinoni et al, 2015).…”

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“…A well-documented example is the shift in the climatic suitability for wine production, which was spatially mostly confined to Mediterranean, southern maritime, and Pannonian regions in Europe (Hannah et al, 2013), and which expanded in the recent period in several regions of central and western Europe (Spinoni et al, 2015). In addition to more frequent and intense heat waves and droughts, anomalous wet conditions have often significantly contributed to crop yield reduction (Ben-Ari et al, 2018;Brisson et al, 2010;Ceglar et al, 2018;Olesen et al, 2017;Trnka et al, 2015).…”

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“…Expected climate change will likely promote further northward expansion of crops adapted to warmer climates but also decrease suitability in the areas affected by increasingly higher temperatures and more frequent droughts (Hannah et al, 2013;Iglesias et al, 2011;King et al, 2018;Marx et al, 2017; 10.1029/2019EF001178 Peltonen-Saino, 2009). King et al (2018) suggested that crop suitable growing-degree-days conditions will experience a northward expansion of up to 1,200 km in the boreal regions by the end of the 21st century.…”

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Observed Northward Migration of Agro‐Climate Zones in Europe Will Further Accelerate Under Climate Change

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This study focuses on the northward shift of homogeneous agro-climate zones in Europe analyzed for the observed past and projected climate conditions for the next decades. Statistical cluster analysis is used to derive eight main agro-climatic zones driven by two agro-meteorological indicators, namely, active temperature sum and thermal growing season length. The northward shift of homogeneous agro-climate zones and the corresponding change of crop growth suitability are analyzed together with the change of exposure of crops to temperature-related climate extremes during the growing season. Gradual warming over Europe has contributed to a lengthening of the growing season and an increased active temperature accumulation, accompanied by more frequent occurrence of warm extreme climate events. Using a set of five high-resolution regional climate scenarios, we calculate that a major part of Europe will be affected by further northward climate zone migration. In the next decades, the migration of agro-climatic zones in Eastern Europe may reach twice the velocity observed during the period 1975-2016. Several regions of the Mediterranean may lose suitability to grow specific crops in favor of northern European regions. This indicator-based assessment suggests that the potential advantages of the lengthening of the thermal growing season in northern and eastern Europe are often outbalanced by the risk of late frost and increased risk of early spring and summer heat waves.

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Observed Northward Migration of Agro‐Climate Zones in Europe Will Further Accelerate Under Climate Change

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Impact of human intervention structures on the rivers: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variation of grain size in the Tista River, eastern Himalayas

Ghosh

Chakraborty

2022

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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In order to investigate the effect of intervention structures like dams and barrage on the sediment grain size distribution, we examined a $75 km stretch of the Tista River in the foothill alluvial plain of the eastern Himalayas. However, studies on the impact of dams on streamflow and sediment in the Himalayan rivers are constrained due to inadequate historical gauge data. Therefore, we employed a simple method to track the initial formation of some of the existing river landforms that formed before the dam/barrage operations from yearly satellite images for in situ sediment sample collection. Hence, the collected sediment grain sizes analysis is used here as a proxy to comprehend the pre-, syn-and post-dam river sediment-transport pattern. We have grouped 23 landforms into three temporal clusters: (i) those formed before 1997, earlier than the dams/barrage interventions (TOL); (ii) formed between 1998 and 2010 during the upstream dam construction (TML) and (iii) formed after 2010 (TNL) when upstream dams and the barrage were fully operational. A total of 116 sediment samples from these landforms indicate the overall grain size reduction for TML and TNL sediment due to reservoir sequestration of coarser grains. In comparison, the coarsest TOL sediment with downstream fining trend represents the pristine river condition. The coarsening trend with a poor correlation coefficient of TML is primarily assigned to partial trapping of the coarse bedload and massive sediment generation by the upstream under-construction dams, resulting in the downstream erosion of the riverbed and transport of the coarser bedload further down.Similarly, post-dam sediment trapping and controlled flow were responsible for the weaker trend with a distinctly finer size of TNL. The historical satellite images and data on streamflow and suspended sediment reveal that contemporary river behaviour is consistent with the earlier interpretation.

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A Relational Vulnerability Analytic: Exploring Hybrid Methodologies for Human Dimensions of Climate Change Research in the Himalayas

Chakraborty

Daloz

L’Ecuyer

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Himalayan Weather and Climate and Their Impact on the Environment

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Climate Change and Crops

Cited by 32 publications

References 531 publications

Observed Northward Migration of Agro‐Climate Zones in Europe Will Further Accelerate Under Climate Change

Observed Northward Migration of Agro‐Climate Zones in Europe Will Further Accelerate Under Climate Change

Impact of human intervention structures on the rivers: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variation of grain size in the Tista River, eastern Himalayas

A Relational Vulnerability Analytic: Exploring Hybrid Methodologies for Human Dimensions of Climate Change Research in the Himalayas

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