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Author Heinke, J.; Ostberg, S.; Schaphoff, S.; Frieler, K.; Müller, C.; Gerten, D.; Meinshausen, M.; Lucht, W.
Title A new climate dataset for systematic assessments of climate change impacts as a function of global warming Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication Geoscientific Model Development Abbreviated Journal Geosci. Model Dev.
Volume 6 Issue 5 Pages 1689-1703
Keywords (down) dangerous anthropogenic interference; vegetation model; carbon-cycle; emissions; targets
Abstract In the ongoing political debate on climate change, global mean temperature change (Delta T-glob) has become the yardstick by which mitigation costs, impacts from unavoided climate change, and adaptation requirements are discussed. For a scientifically informed discourse along these lines, systematic assessments of climate change impacts as a function of Delta T-glob are required. The current availability of climate change scenarios constrains this type of assessment to a narrow range of temperature change and/or a reduced ensemble of climate models. Here, a newly composed dataset of climate change scenarios is presented that addresses the specific requirements for global assessments of climate change impacts as a function of Delta T-glob. A pattern-scaling approach is applied to extract generalised patterns of spatially explicit change in temperature, precipitation and cloudiness from 19 Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs). The patterns are combined with scenarios of global mean temperature increase obtained from the reduced-complexity climate model MAGICC6 to create climate scenarios covering warming levels from 1.5 to 5 degrees above pre-industrial levels around the year 2100. The patterns are shown to sufficiently maintain the original AOGCMs’ climate change properties, even though they, necessarily, utilise a simplified relationships between Delta T-glob and changes in local climate properties. The dataset (made available online upon final publication of this paper) facilitates systematic analyses of climate change impacts as it covers a wider and finer-spaced range of climate change scenarios than the original AOGCM simulations.
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ISSN 1991-9603 ISBN Medium Article
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 4490
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Author Baldinger, L.; Vaillant, J.; Zollitsch, W.; Rinne, M.
Title Making a decision-support system for dairy farmers usable throughout Europe: the challenge of feed evaluation Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Advances in Animal Biosciences Abbreviated Journal Advances in Animal Biosciences
Volume 6 Issue 01 Pages 3-5
Keywords (down) dairy; feed evaluation; organic; SOLID
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ISSN 2040-4700 ISBN Medium Article
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Notes LiveM, ft_macsur Approved no
Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 4678
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Author Kunert, K.J.; van Wyk, S.G.; Cullis, C.A.; Vorster, B.J.; Foyer, C.H.
Title Potential use of phytocystatins in crop improvement, with a particular focus on legumes Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Journal of Experimental Botany Abbreviated Journal J. Experim. Bot.
Volume 66 Issue 12 Pages 3559-3570
Keywords (down) Crops, Agricultural/*growth & development/metabolism; Cystatins/*metabolism; Cysteine Proteases/metabolism; Fabaceae/*growth & development/metabolism; Plant Proteins/*metabolism; Plant Root Nodulation; Stress, Physiological; Chilling; cystatin; drought; protein degradation; senescence; soybean; stress tolerance
Abstract Phytocystatins are a well-characterized class of naturally occurring protease inhibitors that function by preventing the catalysis of papain-like cysteine proteases. The action of cystatins in biotic stress resistance has been studied intensively, but relatively little is known about their functions in plant growth and defence responses to abiotic stresses, such as drought. Extreme weather events, such as drought and flooding, will have negative impacts on the yields of crop plants, particularly grain legumes. The concepts that changes in cellular protein content and composition are required for acclimation to different abiotic stresses, and that these adjustments are achieved through regulation of proteolysis, are widely accepted. However, the nature and regulation of the protein turnover machinery that underpins essential stress-induced cellular restructuring remain poorly characterized. Cysteine proteases are intrinsic to the genetic programmes that underpin plant development and senescence, but their functions in stress-induced senescence are not well defined. Transgenic plants including soybean that have been engineered to constitutively express phytocystatins show enhanced tolerance to a range of different abiotic stresses including drought, suggesting that manipulation of cysteine protease activities by altered phytocystatin expression in crop plants might be used to improve resilience and quality in the face of climate change.
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ISSN 0022-0957 1460-2431 ISBN Medium Review
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 4564
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Author Ewert, F.; Boote, K.J.; Rötter, R.P.; Thorburn, P.; Nendel, C. (eds)
Title Crop modelling for agriculture and food security under global change. Abstracts. International Crop Modelling Symposium iCROPM2016, 15-17 March 2016, Berlin, Germany Type Book Whole
Year 2016 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords (down) CropM; MACSUR_ACK
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Publisher Place of Publication Berlin Editor Ewert, F.; Boote, K.J.; Rötter, R.P.; Thorburn, P.; Nendel, C.
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 2428
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Author Rötter, R.P.; Höhn, J.K.; Palosuo, T.; Kassie, B.T.; Paff, K.; Tao, F.; Chen, Y.; Asseng, S.; et al.
Title Yield gap and variability analysis for different aro-technologies for maize and wheat (YGV study) Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords (down) CropM;
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Area Expedition Conference 2nd Global Food Security Conference, 2015-10-10- to 2015-10-15, Ithaca
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 2770
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