Agricultural Drought and Climate Change: Drought Indices, Impacts, and Projections
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 12 June 2024 | Viewed by 5663
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; bioclimatology; agro-climatic indicators; drought risk assessment
Interests: agro-ecosystem modelling; climate change Impact assessment; crop yield forecasting
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Interests: climatology; climate change; extreme events; model evaluation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last few decades, anthropogenic activities altered the components of the atmosphere and led to climate change. Climate change has directly affected the Earth's ecosystems. Many of the observed climatic changes are unprecedented and have serious negative consequences for ecosystems and humanity, such as species distributions, marine ecosystems, biodiversity, cities and urbanization, agro-ecosystems, food security, human health, etc. The agriculture sector is the most vulnerable sector to climate change, owing to its massive size and sensitivity to weather parameters, thereby causing huge economic impacts.
The purpose of this Special Issue of Sustainability MDPI is to gather research papers on advances in geospatial technology tools, climate change models and crop yield simulation, machine learning approach-based drought assessment, agro-climatic indices, and remotely sensed data-based drought indices for monitoring meteorological and agricultural drought, future projections of drought events, and potential mitigation strategies.
To better understand regional meteorological events and agricultural drought characteristics under global warming, we expect to gain more insights into climate change models' ability to adequately predict drought at different time scales and in different agro-ecosystems. Related influences on agro-ecosystems, an assessment of the consequences, enhanced future forecasting and scenarios, agro-ecosystem drought management, and human adaptation measures at the regional and national level for sustainable farming are also among the topics expected to be included in this Special Issue.
For this Special Issue, we are calling for submissions related to but not limited to the above topics. Papers that may contribute to a better understanding of agricultural drought and climate change are invited.
Dr. Karam Alsafadi
Dr. Amit Kumar Srivastava
Dr. Brian Odhiambo Ayugi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- agricultural drought
- drought indices
- agro-ecosystems
- remote sensing data
- crop yield simulation
- agro-climatic indices
- geospatial technology tools
- sustainable farming
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Morpho-physiological and Agronomic responses to Water Deficit Stress Tolerance in some Rice Genotypes under application of Nano-Silica, Potassium Sulfate and Proline to acheive agricultural sustainability
Author: Abdelaal
Highlights: Drought stress substantially decreased photosynthetic pigments, growth traits, and yield attributes of rice plants.
Application of nano-silica, potassium sulfate, and proline substantially mitigated the deleterious effects of drought and markedly enhanced all the studied parameters compared to control.
Application of these substances in rice genotype Giza-178 is an efficient approach to ameliorating drought tolerance and achieving agricultural sustainability.