Response of Soil Water and Wheat Yield to Rainfall and Temperature Change on the Loess Plateau, China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Environmental Policy Integrated Climate Model and Field Experiment
2.2. Research Design
2.3. Statistical Methods
3. Results
3.1. Changes in Precipitation and Temperature on the Loess Plateau from 1961–2010
3.2. Evaluation Results for the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate Model
3.3. Response of Available Soil Water on Precipitation and Temperature
3.4. Response of Soil Water Distribution on Precipitation and Temperature
3.5. Response of Winter Wheat Yield to Precipitation and Temperature
4. Discussions
4.1. Validation of the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate Model
4.2. Response of Soil Water in a Winter Wheat Field to Precipitation and Temperature
4.3. Response of Winter Wheat Yield to Precipitation and Temperature
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Wang, X.; Qadir, M.; Rasul, F.; Yang, G.; Hu, Y. Response of Soil Water and Wheat Yield to Rainfall and Temperature Change on the Loess Plateau, China. Agronomy 2018, 8, 101. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy8070101
Wang X, Qadir M, Rasul F, Yang G, Hu Y. Response of Soil Water and Wheat Yield to Rainfall and Temperature Change on the Loess Plateau, China. Agronomy. 2018; 8(7):101. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy8070101
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Xuechun, Muslim Qadir, Fahd Rasul, Guotao Yang, and Yungao Hu. 2018. "Response of Soil Water and Wheat Yield to Rainfall and Temperature Change on the Loess Plateau, China" Agronomy 8, no. 7: 101. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy8070101