Modelling impacts of climate change on arable crop diseases: progress, challenges and applications

Newbery, F., Qi, A. and Fitt, B. D. L. (2016) Modelling impacts of climate change on arable crop diseases: progress, challenges and applications. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 32. pp. 101-109. ISSN 1369-5266 doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.07.002

Abstract/Summary

Combining climate change, crop growth and crop disease models to predict impacts of climate change on crop diseases can guide planning of climate change adaptation strategies to ensure future food security. This review summarises recent developments in modelling climate change impacts on crop diseases, emphasises some major challenges and highlights recent trends. The use of multi-model ensembles in climate change modelling and crop modelling is contributing towards measures of uncertainty in climate change impact projections but other aspects of uncertainty remain largely unexplored. Impact assessments are still concentrated on few crops and few diseases but are beginning to investigate arable crop disease dynamics at the landscape level.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/66353
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.pbi.2016.07.002
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
Publisher	Elsevier
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