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Global change and the challenges for agriculture and forestry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2000

C. S. AWMACK ,
P. SMITH  and
P. J. PINTER
C. S. AWMACK
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA
P. SMITH
Affiliation:
Department of Soil Science, IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 2JQ, UK
P. J. PINTER
Affiliation:
USDA, ARS, U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory, 4331 E Broadway Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85040, USA
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Abstract

A key need of the global change research community is to be able to synthesize the data collected by scientists from a wide range of disciplines and use it to make predictions about our future environment. In an agricultural and forestry context, this will allow predictions of yields under elevated atmospheric CO2 levels and/or changed climate using data from studies of both the direct effects of global change on plant growth and physiology and indirect effects on soil fertility, water resources, pests and diseases.

A conference held at the University of Reading, UK in September 1999, and organized under the auspices of Focus 3 (Global Change Impact on Agriculture, Forestry and Soils; http://mwnta.nmw.ac.uk/GCTEFocus3) of the IGBP Core Project “Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems” addressed many of these issues.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 135 , Issue 2 , September 2000 , pp. 199 - 201
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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