Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 33 Climate Impact on Agriculture
This book presents advanced knowledge on the relationships between climate change and agriculture, and various adaptation techniques such as low tillage, salt-adapted beneficial microbes and closed systems. Climate change is unavoidable but adaptation is possible. Climate change and agriculture are...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
| Series: | Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This book presents advanced knowledge on the relationships between climate change and agriculture, and various adaptation techniques such as low tillage, salt-adapted beneficial microbes and closed systems. Climate change is unavoidable but adaptation is possible. Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale. Climate change affects agriculture through changes in average temperatures, rainfall and climate extremes; changes in pests and diseases; changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide; changes in the nutritional quality of some foods; and changes in sea level |
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| Physical Description: | XI, 335 p. 53 illus online resource |
| ISBN: | 9783319990767 |