Climate Change Effects on Crop (Hardcover)

Foreword vii

Introduction ix

Contributors xiii

Testing Approaches and Components in Physiologically Based Crop Models for Sensitivity to Climatic Factors
Kenneth J. Boote, James W. Jones, Matthijs Tollenaar, Kofikuma A. Dzotsi, P.V. Vara Prasad, and Jon I. Lizaso 1

Wheat Responses to a Wide Range of Temperatures: The Hot Serial Cereal Experiment
B.A. Kimball, J.W. White, G.W. Wall, and M.J. Ottman 33

Rice Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Studies to Improve Assessment of Climate Change Effects on Rice Agriculture
Toshihiro Hasegawa, Hidemitsu Sakai, Takeshi Tokida, Yasuhiro Usui, Mayumi Yoshimoto, Minehiko Fukuoka, Hirofumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Shimono, and Masumi Okada 45

Climate Change and Potato: Responses to Carbon Dioxide, Temperature, and Drought
David H. Fleisher, Dennis J. Timlin, and V.R. Reddy 69

Farm Simulation Can Help Dairy Production Systems Adapt to Climate Change
C. Alan Rotz, R. Howard Skinner, Anne M.K. Stoner, and Katharine Hayhoe 91

Sentinel Site Data for Crop Model Improvement?Definition and Characterization
Kenneth J. Boote, Cheryl Porter, James W. Jones, Peter J. Thorburn, K.C. Kersebaum, Gerrit Hoogenboom, J.W. White, and J.L. Hatfield 125

Evapotranspiration: Evolution of Methods to Increase Spatial and Temporal Resolution
Jerry L. Hatfield, John H. Prueger, William P. Kustas, Martha C. Anderson, and Joseph G. Alfieri 159

Variable Atmospheric, Canopy, and Soil Effects on Energy and Carbon Fluxes over Crops
Jerry L. Hatfield and John H. Prueger 195

About the Series 217