An investigation of the relationship between pesticide usage and climate change

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dc.contributorNational Assessment of Climate Changeen
dc.contributorAgricultural Focus Group supported by the U.S. Global Climate Change Officeen
dc.contributor.authorChen, Chi Chungen
dc.contributor.authorMcCarl, Bruce A.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Statesen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:07:13Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:07:13Zen
dc.date.issued2001en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractMany agriculturalists are concerned that climate change may increase pest migration and population increases, which could have very detrimental effects on the productivity and profitability of agriculture. The authors assess how current climate variations affect pesticide costs per acre in the U.S. as an indicator of the impacts of pest population changes. Examining pesticide costs independently for corn, cotton, potatoes, soybeans, and wheat, they found that all the studied crops required increased pesticide expenditures when rainfall increased, and all but wheat had higher costs with higher temperatures. Increased rainfall also increased the cost variability for cotton, while decreasing variability for the other crops. Higher temperatures corresponded to increased cost variability for corn, potatoes, and wheat and decreased variance for soybeans.en
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dc.identifier171en
dc.identifier.citationClimatic Change 50: 475-487en
dc.identifier.issn0165-0009en
dc.identifier.issn1573-1480en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65258en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherNetherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishersen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishersen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectPest controlen
dc.subjectFarm planningen
dc.subjectEconomic analysesen
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectPest managementen
dc.subjectEconomic impactsen
dc.subjectEconomic statistics and indicatorsen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectPest migrationen
dc.subjectAgricultural productionen
dc.subjectPesticide costsen
dc.subjectRainfallen
dc.subjectTemperatureen
dc.subjectAgricultural impactsen
dc.subjectEcosystem Field Scaleen
dc.titleAn investigation of the relationship between pesticide usage and climate changeen
dc.typeAbstracten
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