Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change

By W. Schlenker, Michael J. Roberts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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The effect of high temperature stress on male and female reproduction in plants (2015, background): “Agriculture, in particular, is highly vulnerable to global change as the crops we depend upon are negatively impacted by a number of the drivers, most notably climate change (Easterling et al., 2007; Schlenker and Roberts, 2009; Lobell et al., 2014).”
Irrigation offsets wheat yield reductions from warming temperatures (2017, methodology): “The weather effects are modelled following the piecewise linear degree day approach [9], where Frezjst measures exposure in days to freezing temperatures, DDlowjst measures degree days between zero and the lower threshold, DDmedjst measures degree days between the lower and upper threshold, and DDhg”
Strawberry fields forever? Urban agriculture in developed countries: a review (2013, neutral): “are likely to increase dependence on agricultural imports (Fischer et al. 2005; Schlenker and Roberts 2009).”
Industry-Scale Evaluation of Maize Hybrids Selected for Increased Yield in Drought-Stress Conditions of the US Corn Belt (2015, background): “(2013) showed that the often-observed relationship between air temperature and yield (Schlenker and Roberts, 2009) is related to variations in vapor-pressure deficit rather than temperature effects on growth and development in maize.”
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP): Protocols and Pilot Studies (2013, neutral): “Statistical approaches (e.g., Schlenker and Roberts, 2009; Lobell et al., 2011) are gaining in prominence for assessing climate change impacts on crop production due to their ability to rapidly assess large and diverse datasets.”
Impact of Climate Change on Crops Adaptation and Strategies to Tackle Its Outcome: A Review (2019, background): “Schlenker and Roberts (2009) described that maize yield was increased at an optimum temperature of 29 ◦C but a further increase in temperature hampered the yield of maize [53].”
Heat stress responses and thermotolerance (2014, background): “corn and soybeans yields under climate change [97].”
Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change (2013, neutral): “Therefore, recent studies have adopted a second approach that focuses on a panel data analysis, which controls for space and time-fixed effects (e.g., Auffhammer, Ramanathan, and Vincent 2006; Deschenes and Greenstone 2007; Schlenker and Roberts 2009).”