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Understanding how crops will respond to climate change is essential to agriculture's ability to adapt and have the greatest probability of continuing to meet societal needs. Crop model intercomparison and improvement are required to advance understanding of the impact of future climate change on crop growth and yield. Initial efforts undertaken in the Agriculture Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) led to several observations where crop models were not adequately simulating growth and development. Enhanced efforts are required to quantify the carbon dioxide temperature water interactions in plant growth and yield. This volume in the Advances in Agricultural Systems Modeling series presents progress in that area, with experimental observations across crops, simulation modeling outcomes, and future challenges in improving crop simulation models.--
List of contents
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
About the author
Dr. Jerry L. Hatfield received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1975 in the area of Agricultural Climatology and Statistics a M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Kentucky in 1972, and B.S. from Kansas State University in Agronomy in 1971. He served on the faculty of the University of California-Davis as a biometeorologist from 1975 through 1983 and then joined USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Lubbock, Texas, as the Research Leader of the Plant Stress and Water Conservation Research Unit from 1983 through 1989. He was appointed Laboratory Director of the National Soil Tilth Laboratory in 1989 (renamed the Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in October 2009). He served as the USDA-ARS representative to the Heinz Center project on the State of the Nation's Ecosystems, the Key Indicators Initiative, National Audubon Society project on Waterbirds on Working Lands, and Agricultural Air Quality Task Force for USDA, and is the lead author on the Agriculture section of the Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 on "The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity". He was part of the IPCC process that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and currently serves on the IPCC special committee to evaluate the impact of extreme events on ecosystems. He served as a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, and Past-President of the American Society of Agronomy (2007). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and a member of American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society. He has numerous awards from different organizations.
David Fleisher is an agricultural engineer at USDA-ARS Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory in Beltsville, MD. His research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to address critical issues in agricultural production systems.
