Track 2-07: Climate Change Impacts on Grassland Production, Composition, Distribution and Adaptation
Publication Date
2013
Location
Sydney, Australia
Description
Climate change in France, central and southern Europe is expected to provoke more frequent and more intense summer water deficits, with increased amplitude in temperatures, exposing the same perennial crops to frosts as well as to heat waves and severe droughts. The impacts on sown monospecific grasslands have been assessed using crop models (Durand et al. 2010) but with less accuracy in extreme situations. Since less work has been done on intra-specific genetic variability there is urgent need to investigate both ranges of climate conditions and genetic variability (Poirier et al. 2012). Phenology and plant productivity responses to water, temperature and nitrogen (N) in particular need to be re-assessed over the full range of temperatures projected in the future.
Citation
Durand, Jean-Louis; Enjalbert, Jérome; Hazard, Laurent; Litrico, Isabelle; Picon-Cochard, Catherine; Prudhomme, Marie-Pascale; and Volaire, Florence, "CLIMAGIE: A French INRA Project to Adapt the Grasslands to Climate Change" (2013). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 18.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/22/2-7/18)
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CLIMAGIE: A French INRA Project to Adapt the Grasslands to Climate Change
Sydney, Australia
Climate change in France, central and southern Europe is expected to provoke more frequent and more intense summer water deficits, with increased amplitude in temperatures, exposing the same perennial crops to frosts as well as to heat waves and severe droughts. The impacts on sown monospecific grasslands have been assessed using crop models (Durand et al. 2010) but with less accuracy in extreme situations. Since less work has been done on intra-specific genetic variability there is urgent need to investigate both ranges of climate conditions and genetic variability (Poirier et al. 2012). Phenology and plant productivity responses to water, temperature and nitrogen (N) in particular need to be re-assessed over the full range of temperatures projected in the future.
