Future agroclimatic conditions and implications for European grasslands

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/86652079:_____/20:00543041 RIV/62156489:43210/20:43919901

Result on the web

<a href="http://bp.ueb.cas.cz/artkey/bpl-202001-0180_future-agroclimatic-conditions-and-implications-for-european-grasslands.php" target="_blank" >http://bp.ueb.cas.cz/artkey/bpl-202001-0180_future-agroclimatic-conditions-and-implications-for-european-grasslands.php</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32615/bp.2021.005" target="_blank" >10.32615/bp.2021.005</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Future agroclimatic conditions and implications for European grasslands

Original language description

Grasslands play a significant role in livestock fodder production and thus, contribute to food security worldwide while providing numerous additional ecosystem services. However, how agroclimatic conditions and adverse weather events relevant for grasslands will change across the European grassland areas has not been examined to date. Using a single reference setup for soil and management over 476 European sites defined by climate stations, we show the probability of eight selected adverse weather events with the potential to significantly affect grassland productivity under climate change and how these events vary regionally across Europe. Changes in these eight key agroclimatic indicators create markedly specific spatial patterns. We found that by 2050, the exposure of the south and west European grasslands to heat and drought may double in comparison with today and that the area with frequent occurrences of heat and drought will expand northwards. However, across Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic countries to southern Finland and Sweden, the likelihood of these events is likely to decrease. While changing cultivars and management strategies are unavoidable, shifting grassland production to other regions to reduce the risk may not be possible as the risk of adverse events beyond the key grassland-growing areas increases even further. Moreover, we found marked changes in the overall thermal and water regimes across European regions. The effect of adverse weather events in the future could be different in other regions of the world compared to regions in Europe, emphasizing the importance of conducting similar analyses for other major grassland producing regions. To mitigate the impact of climate change, new ways of maintaining grassland productivity need to be developed. These methods include more efficient selection of species mixtures for specific regions, including increased use of legumes and forbs, incorporation of new genetic resources, including the development of hybrid cultivars, such as Festulolium hybrids, and incorporation of state-of-the-art technologies in breeding programs and new grazing management.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biologia Plantarum

ISSN

0006-3134

e-ISSN

1573-8264

Volume of the periodical

64

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JAN

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

865-880

UT code for WoS article

000651817200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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