文档介绍：Agricultural Water Management 127 (2013) 119–123
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Response to climate change for potato water use efficiency in
semi-arid areas of China
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Xiao Guoju , Zhang Fengju , Qiu Zhengji , Yao Yubi , Wang Runyuan , Huang Juying
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Research and Development Center of New Technology Application of Ningxia University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, 750021, China
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Research Institute of Flowers and Plants of Ningxia Liupan Mountain, Longde, Ningxia, 756300, China
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Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Gansu Key Laboratory of Arid Climate Changes and Disaster Reduction, Lanzhou,
Gansu Province 730020, China
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Article history: The drought trend of China’s semi-arid areas has dramatically intensified in the past 50 years as a result of
Received 6 October 2012
global climate change, which clearly affects crop production and water use. This paper, selecting the semi-
Accepted 1 June 2013
arid area of Guyuan in China as the research base, is a study of the impact of climate change on potato
Available online 6 July 2013
water use efficiency (WUE), using temperature rise and precipitation simulation testing. The results
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