Spatial and Temporal Variations in the Potential Yields of Highland Barley in Relation to Climate Change in Three Rivers Region of the Tibetan Plateau from 1961 to 2020

Jiandong Liu, Jun Du, Liu De-Li, Hans W. Linderholm, Guangsheng Zhou, Yanling Song, Yanbo Shen and Qiang Yu
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Jiandong Liu: State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Institute of Agro-Meteorology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Jun Du: Tibet Institute of Plateau Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Tibet Autonomous Meteorological Administration, Lhasa 850001, China
Liu De-Li: NSW Department of Primary Industries, Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, PMB, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650, Australia
Hans W. Linderholm: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Guangsheng Zhou: State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Institute of Agro-Meteorology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Yanling Song: State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Institute of Agro-Meteorology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Yanbo Shen: Centre for Solar and Wind Energy Research, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China
Qiang Yu: State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Water and Soil Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-15

Abstract: Spatial and temporal variations in the potential yields of highland barley is important for making policies on adaptation of agriculture to climate change in the Three Rivers Region (TRR), one of the main highland barley growing areas on the Tibetan Plateau. This research tries to explore a suitable strategy for simulating potential yields of highland barley by the WOFOST (WOrld FOod STudies) crop growth model, and further to identify variations in climate conditions and potential yields in TRR from 1961 to 2020 for making policies on adaptation of agricultural production to the climate change impacts on the Tibetan Plateau. Validation results indicated that WOFOST could accurately simulate the potential yields of highland barley with the global radiation estimated by the calibrated Angstrom model. The global radiation during the growth periods decreased at a rate of 0.047 MJ/m 2 a, while the temperature during the growth periods increased at rates ranging from 0.019 to 0.087 °C/a, which was greater than the average warming rate of the globe. The simulated potential yields ranged from 10,300 to 14,185 kg/ha in TRR, with an average decreasing rate of 28 kg/ha/a. The decrease in the potential yields was mainly attributed to the shortened critical period caused by warming effects, so cultivation of new varieties of highland barley with longer growth periods is suggested as an achievable strategy for the adaptation of highland barley to climate change in TRR.

Keywords: WOFOST crop model; potential yield; highland barley; Tibetan Plateau; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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