3-9: Impact of Global Change on Agriculture

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Adaptation of Plant Systems to CO₂ Increase
  
  
• Meeting Future Global Food Demands While Preserving Biodiversity in Agricultural Areas
  
  
• Climate Change due to Land-Use Change
  
  
• Impact of Land-Use on Climate Change
  
  
• How Many Miles of Roots in a Corn Field?
  
  
• Increasing Food Production in a Warmer World
  
  
• Changing the Hydrological Cycle in US Midwest
  
  
• Technology vs. Impact
  
  
• Climate Caused Collapse of the Mayan Civilization
  
  
• Impact on Plants caused by Multiple Global Changes
  
  
• Impact on Grasslands of Changes in Rainfall Variabilit
  
  
• Reducing soil inputs leads to more diversity and better resource utilization
  
  
• Study Shows Organic Farming Is Amazingly Efficient
  
  
• State by State Estimates of Climate Change Impacts
  
  
• Hypoxia, fertilizer and the Gulf of Mexico
  
  
• Plant responses to Global Warming.
  
  
• Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico
  
  
• Global Nitrogen Overload
  
  
• Positive Effects of Global Change for Agriculture
  
  
• Long-term agroecosystem experiments
  
  
• Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia: Do Iowa Farmers cause the "DeadZone"?
  
  

Websites

• Crop Production in a Changing Climate
  
  
• Creeping Dead Zones
  
  
• The Cost of US Forest-based Carbon Sequestration (PDF File)
  
  
• Long-term Sensitivity of Soil Carbon Turnover to Warming
  
  
• Soil Biota and Biodiversity: the "Root" of Sustainable Agriculture
  
  
• What You Can Do
  
  
• Sustainable Agriculture. (From the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, University of California-Davis.)
  
  
• Changes in cereal production under three GCM equilibrium scenarios
  
  
• Impact of temperature rise on robusta coffee in Uganda
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization
  
  
• CIESIN Thematic Guide: Impacts of Global Climate Change on Agriculture.
  
  
• Spatial Data in Geographic Information System Format on Agricultural Chemical Use, Land Use, and Cropping Practices in the United States.
  
  
• Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, University of California-Davis
  
  
• Depositing Carbon in the Soil Bank
  
  
• EPA Agricultural Impacts
  
  
• Effects of Ozone Air Pollution on Plants
  
  

Additional References

• Cherry. M., 2005: Ministers agree to action warnings of soaring temperatures in Africa. Nature, 437, 1217.
  
  
• Giles, J., 2005: Hikes in surface ozone could suffocate crops. Nature, 435, 7.
  
  
• Challinor, A. J., and Coauthors, 2005: Simulation of crop yields using ERA-40: Limits to skill and nonstationarity in weather-yield relationships. J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 516-531.
  
  
• Zhang, Yu; W. Chen, S.L. Smith, D.W. Riseborough, J. Cihlar, 2005: Soil temperature in Canada during the twentieth century: Complex responses to atmospheric climate change. J. Geophys. Res., 110, No. D3, D03112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004JD004910.
  
  
• Cooley, H.S.; W.J. Riley, M.S. Torn, Y. He, 2005: Impact of agricultural practice on regional climate in a coupled land surface mesoscale model. J. Geophys. Res., 110, No. D3, D03113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004JD005160.
  
  
• Rosegrant, M. W., and S. A. Cline, 2003: Global food security: Challenges and policies. Science, 302, 1917-1919.
  
  
• Tao, F., M. Yokozawa, Y.Hayashi, and E. Lin, 2003: Terrestrial water cycle and the impact of climate change. AMBIO, 32(4), 295-301.
  
  
• Stone, M.C., R.H. Hotchkiss, and L.O. mearns, 2003: Water yield responses to high and low spatial resolution climate change scenarios in the Missouri River Basin. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1186.
  
  
• Carbone, G.J., L.O. mearns, T. Mavromatis, E.J. Sadler, and D. Stooksbury, 2003: Evaluating CROPGRO-Soybean performance for use in climate impct studies. Agronomy Journal, 95, 537-544.
  
  
• Hetherington, A. M., and F. I. Woodward, 2003: The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change. Nature, 424, 901-908.
  
  
• Agricultural Sources of Greenhouse Gases
  
  
• Raymond, P.A., and J. J. Cole, 2003: Increase in the export of alkalinity from North America's largest river. Science, 301, 88-91.
  
  
• Lobell, D. B., and G. P. Asner, 2003: Climate and management contributions to recent trends in US agricultural yields. Science, 299, 1032.
  
  
• Rosenzweig, C., F. N. Tubiello, R. Goldberg, E. Mills, and J. Bloomfield, 2002: Increased crop damage in the US from excess precipitation under climate change. Global Environmental Change, March 2002
  
  
• Kogan, F., 2002: World droughts in the new millennium from AVHRR-based vegetation health indices. EOS, 83, 557-559.
  
  
• Mader, P., A. Fliessbach, D. Dubois, L. Gunst, P. Fried, and U. Niggli, 2002: Soil fertility and biodiversity in organic farming. Science, 296, 1694-1697.
  
  
• McCarl, B. A., and U. A. Schneider, 2001: Greenhouse gas mitigation and U.S, agriculture and forestry. Science, 294, 2481-2482.
  
  
• Kogan, F. N., 2001: Operational space technology for global vegetation assessment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 1949-1964.
  
  
• Olszyk, D. M., H. G. S. Centeno, L. H. Ziska, J. S. Kern, R. B. Matthews, 2000: Global climate change, rice productivity and methane emissions: comparison of simulated and experimental results.Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 97, 87-101
  
  
• Coolsby, Donald A., 2000: Mississippi Basin nitrogen flux believed to cause Gulf hypoxia. EOS, 81, 321-327.
  
  
• Frisvold, G., and Betsey Kuhn, eds., 1999: Global Environmental Change and Agriculture. Edward Elgar Pub. Co. Cheltenham, UK. 354 pp.
  
  
• MacDonald, N. W.,D. L. Randlett, and D. R. Zak, 1999: Soil warming and carbon loss from a Lake State Spodosol.Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 63, 823-828
  
  
• Rasmussen, P. E., K. W. T. Goulding, J. R. Brown, P. R. Grace, H. H. Janzen, and M. Korschens, 1998: Long-term agroecosystem experiemnts: Assessing agricultural sustainability and global change. Science, 282, 893-896.
  
  
• Malakoff, David, 1998: Death by suffocation in the Gulf of Mexico. Science, 281, 190-192.
  
  
• McCarty, G. W., N. N. Lyssenko, and J. L. Starr, 1998: Short-term changes in soil carbon and nitrogen pools during tillage management transition. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 62, 1564-1571.
  
  
• Drury, C. F., T. O. Oloya, D. J. McKenney, D. G. Gregorich, C. S. Tan, and C. L. vanLuyk, 1998: Long-term effects of fertilization and rotation on denitrification and soil carbon. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 62, 1572-1579.
  
  
• Graves, J., D. Reavey, 1996: Global Environmental Change. Plants, Animals, and Communities. Longman Group Ltd., Essex, England. 226 pp.
  
  
• Omasa, K., K. Kai, H. Taoda, Z. Uchijima, and M. Yoshino, 1996: Climate Change and Plants in East Asia. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, 215 pp.
  
  
• Pimentel, et al, 1995: Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits, Science, 267, 1111-1237.
  
  
• Johannsen, Chris J., 1994: Precision Farming: Farming by The Inch. The Earth Observer, 6, 7K.
  
  
• Kaiser, H.M., Drennen, T.E. eds, 1993: Agricultural Dimensions of Global Climate Change, St. Lucie Press, 311 pp.
  
  
• Mackay, D. M., Smith, L. A. 1990: Agricultural Chemicals in Groundwater: Monitoring and Management in California. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 89, 253-255.
  
  
• Parry, M.L., T.R. Carter, and N.T. Konjin, eds, 1988: The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agriculture: Volume 1: Assessments in Cool Temperate and Cold Regions, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 876 pp.
  
  
• Myre, G. and A. Myre, 2003: Uncertainties in Radiative Forcing Due to Surface Albedo Changes Caused by Land-use Changes. J. Climate, 16, 1511-1524.
  
  
• Human-Induced Soil Degradation(Download Adobe Acrobat Reader ).
  
  
• Food import dependency, 1988-1990, technical atlas, WFS.
  
  
• Food production growth, technical atlas, WFS.
  
  
• Food production growth per person, technical atlas, WFS.
  
  
• Growth in cereal yields, 1963-65 to 1993-95, technical atlas, WFS.
  
  
• Irrigated land, technical atlas, WFS.
  
  
• Economic importance of agricluture, technical atlas, WFS.