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Soil moisture trends in Asia
Soil moisture has a direct influence on vegetation health. Plants suffer moisture stress when soil moisture falls below normal levels. In the extreme case (wilting point), they lose the ability to extract water from the soil. An earlier post (mapping-climate-change) looked at trends in surface temperature and precipitation over the past 30 years using data from a [...]
April 4, 2012
Tags: China, soil moisture Posted in: Agriculture, Climate 
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Mapping climate change
The impact of climatic change on global agriculture is an area of concern for food security, policy, investment etc. While agricultural productivity continues to increase, climatic change introduces an unwelcome element of uncertainty and risk. David Lobell (Stanford University) and co-workers have related changes in crop yields to observed climatic shifts over the past thirty years. [...]
January 2, 2012
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