Two-thirds of global cropland area impacted by climate oscillations

Matias Heino; Michael J. Puma; Philip J. Ward; Dieter Gerten; Vera Heck; Stefan Siebert; Matti Kummu

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02071-5

Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Two-thirds of global cropland area impacted by climate oscillations

Matias Heino,
Michael J. Puma,
Philip J. Ward,
Dieter Gerten,
Vera Heck,
Stefan Siebert,
Matti Kummu

Affiliations

Matias Heino: Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University
Michael J. Puma: Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Philip J. Ward: Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dieter Gerten: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Research Domain of Earth System Analysis
Vera Heck: Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University
Stefan Siebert: Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn
Matti Kummu: Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02071-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Climate oscillations such as El Niño Southern Oscillation may impact global crop production. Here, the authors, using a unified framework of multiple climate oscillations, find that from 1961 to 2010 over two-thirds of the global cropland is located where crop productivity is influenced by climate oscillations.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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