Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change

C Lesk, W Anderson, A Rigden, O Coast… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Extreme heat, drought and moisture excess are increasingly co-occurring within a single
growing season, impacting crop yields in global breadbasket regions. In this Review, we …

Climate change impacts on crop yields

EE Rezaei, H Webber, S Asseng, K Boote… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Climate change challenges efforts to maintain and improve crop production in many regions.
In this Review, we examine yield responses to warmer temperatures, elevated carbon …

Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events

J Yin, P Gentine, L Slater, L Gu, Y Pokhrel… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Compound drought–heatwave (CDHW) events are one of the worst climatic stressors for
global sustainable development. However, the physical mechanisms behind CDHWs and …

Disentangling the effects of vapor pressure deficit on northern terrestrial vegetation productivity

Z Zhong, B He, YP Wang, HW Chen, D Chen, YH Fu… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
The impact of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD) on plant photosynthesis has long
been acknowledged, but large interactions with air temperature (T) and soil moisture (SM) …

Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing crop** frequency and yields

P Zhu, J Burney, J Chang, Z **, ND Mueller… - Nature Climate …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Annual food caloric production is the product of caloric yield, crop** frequency (CF,
number of production seasons per year) and cropland area. Existing studies have largely …

Impacts of climate change on the livestock food supply chain; a review of the evidence

CM Godde, D Mason-D'Croz, DE Mayberry… - Global food security, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The potential impacts of climate change on current livestock systems worldwide are a major
concern, and yet the topic is covered to a limited extent in global reports such as the ones …

Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

C Grossiord, TN Buckley, LA Cernusak… - New …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent decades have been characterized by increasing temperatures worldwide, resulting
in an exponential climb in vapor pressure deficit (VPD). VPD has been identified as an …

Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yields

C Lesk, E Coffel, J Winter, D Ray, J Zscheischler… - Nature food, 2021‏ - nature.com
Rising air temperatures are a leading risk to global crop production. Recent research has
emphasized the critical role of moisture availability in regulating crop responses to heat and …

Water-use efficiency: advances and challenges in a changing climate

JL Hatfield, C Dold - Frontiers in plant science, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Water use efficiency (WUE) is defined as the amount of carbon assimilated as biomass or
grain produced per unit of water used by the crop. One of the primary questions being asked …

Severity of drought and heatwave crop losses tripled over the last five decades in Europe

TA Brás, J Seixas, N Carvalhais… - Environmental …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme weather disasters (EWDs) can jeopardize domestic food supply and disrupt
commodity markets. However, historical impacts on European crop production associated …