Damaging impacts of warming moderated by migration of rainfed crops

Terra Daily

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Fort Collins CO (SPX) Mar 23, 2020

Many studies seek to estimate the adverse effects of climate change on crops, but most research assumes that the geographic distribution of crops will remain unchanged in the future. New research using 40 years of global data, led by Colorado State University, has found that exposure to rising high temperatures has been substantially moderated by the migration of rainfed corn, wheat and ri

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