Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change

C Lesk, W Anderson, A Rigden, O Coast… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Extreme heat, drought and moisture excess are increasingly co-occurring within a single
growing season, impacting crop yields in global breadbasket regions. In this Review, we …

Climate change impacts on crop yields

EE Rezaei, H Webber, S Asseng, K Boote… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change challenges efforts to maintain and improve crop production in many regions.
In this Review, we examine yield responses to warmer temperatures, elevated carbon …

Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yields

C Lesk, E Coffel, J Winter, D Ray, J Zscheischler… - Nature food, 2021 - nature.com
Rising air temperatures are a leading risk to global crop production. Recent research has
emphasized the critical role of moisture availability in regulating crop responses to heat and …

Climate change has likely already affected global food production

DK Ray, PC West, M Clark, JS Gerber, AV Prishchepov… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Crop yields are projected to decrease under future climate conditions, and recent research
suggests that yields have already been impacted. However, current impacts on a diversity of …

Europe (Chapter 13)

B Bednar-Friedl, R Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts

Z Hao, F Hao, Y Xia, S Feng, C Sun, X Zhang, Y Fu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Diverging importance of drought stress for maize and winter wheat in Europe

H Webber, F Ewert, JE Olesen, C Müller… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the drivers of yield levels under climate change is required to support
adaptation planning and respond to changing production risks. This study uses an …

Climate adaptation by crop migration

LL Sloat, SJ Davis, JS Gerber, FC Moore… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Many studies have estimated the adverse effects of climate change on crop yields, however,
this literature almost universally assumes a constant geographic distribution of crops in the …

Towards a multiscale crop modelling framework for climate change adaptation assessment

B Peng, K Guan, J Tang, EA Ainsworth, S Asseng… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Predicting the consequences of manipulating genotype (G) and agronomic management (M)
on agricultural ecosystem performances under future environmental (E) conditions remains …

Impact of high temperatures in maize: Phenology and yield components

JI Lizaso, M Ruiz-Ramos, L Rodríguez… - Field crops …, 2018 - Elsevier
Heat stress is a main threat to current and future global maize production. Adaptation of
maize to future warmer conditions requires improving our understanding of crop responses …