Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Causes and implications of the unforeseen 2016 extreme yield loss in the breadbasket of France

  • Tamara Ben-Ari,
  • Julien Boé,
  • Philippe Ciais,
  • Remi Lecerf,
  • Marijn Van der Velde,
  • David Makowski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04087-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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In France, the 2016 winter wheat harvest was at its lowest since over 50 years. Here, Ben-Ari et al. show the role of seasonal temperature and precipitation extremes in this loss, and accounting for both of these variables explains large, historical yield loss events.