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Title: | Climate and crop interactions : the biogeophysical effects on climate and vegetation | ||||
Author: | Davies-Barnard, T. |
ISNI:
0000 0004 5923 8128
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Awarding Body: | University of Bristol | ||||
Current Institution: | University of Bristol | ||||
Date of Award: | 2014 | ||||
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The interactions between changing agricultural land and climate are multi faceted and only partially
understood. This thesis looks at interactions between crops and climate from assumptions about parameterisations
that underpin crop changes in models; the unintended consequences of policies which
affect land cover; and the impacts of deliberate crop changes (e.g. biogeoengineering). Focusing on
the biogeophysical effects (from albedo, evapotranspiration etc.) these effects are compared to the biogeochemical
effects (from greenhouse gases). There are considerable local and global biogeophysical
effects to climate from land-use change, which do not necessarily scale linearly with the amount of landuse
change itself. Changing the parameterisation of contributory factors to biogeophysical changes can
affect the climate at least as much as deliberate alterations. Similarly, climate forced land cover change
effects can be larger than land use forced changes. Increases in crop yield from deliberately altered
albedo are small, but the changes to climate via albedo from different assumptions of yield are significant
at a global and regional scale. This work emphasises the importance of including biogeophysical
interactions in assessments of crop and land cover change in policy decisions, but also that the effects
of land use change should not be overestimated, as the net effects are often smaller than the parameter
uncertainty.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.685042 | DOI: | Not available | ||
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