Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change in Western Australian Wheat Cropping Systems
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The environment in which crops will be grown in the future will change. Temperatures and CO2 concentrations [CO2] will increase. Also a decline in winter rainfall of up to 30% in 2070 is predicted for south-west Australia. Effects of climate change on cropping systems were simulated with the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM-Nwheat) using transformed historic weather data. Fifty years of yield were simulated for three soil types at different locations on a north – south transect within the wheatbelt of south-west Australia.
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