Comparing mechanistic and empirical model projections of crop suitability and productivity: implications for ecological forecasting
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STEP Program, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA, Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA, Institute for Soil, Climate, and Water, Agricultural Research Council, Stellenbosch 2599, South Africa, Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics, Conservation International, Arlington, VA 22202, USA, School of Bioresources Engineering and Environmental Hydrology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa, Climate Systems Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa ABSTRACT
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