Viticulture and Winemaking under Climate Change
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 102096
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Interests: applied climatology; mediterranean crops; climate change; crop modelling; data science
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Dear Colleagues,
The importance of viticulture and of the winemaking socio-economic sector is largely acknowledged for many regions worldwide. The most famous winemaking regions show very specific environmental characteristics, where climate usually plays a key role. Considering the strong influence of weather and climatic factors on grapevine yields and berry quality attributes, climate change may indeed significantly impact this crop. Recent-past trends already point to a pronounced increase in the growing season mean temperatures, as well as changes on the precipitation regimes, which has been influencing wine typicity across some of the most renowned winemaking regions worldwide. Moreover, several climate scenarios give evidence for enhanced stress conditions for grapevine growth until the end of the century. Although grapevines have a high resilience, the clear evidence for significant climate change in the upcoming decades urges adaptation and mitigation measures to be taken by the sector stakeholders. The current Special Issue of Agronomy welcomes articles related to the field of climate and climate change impacts on viticulture and winemaking, including the assessment of potential adaptation measures against these threats. Field trials and/or modelling approaches (crop or climate modelling) are also valuable contributions to this Special Issue.
Dr. Helder Fraga
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Viticulture
- Winemaking
- Climatic influence
- Climate change
- Adaptation measures
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