The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions

Increasing the accuracy of crop productivity estimates is a key element in planning adaptation strategies to ensure global food security under climate change. Process-based crop models are effective means to project climate impact on crop yield, but have large uncertainty in yield simulations. Here, we show that variations in the mathematical functions currently used to simulate temperature responses of physiological processes in 29 wheat models account for >50% of uncertainty in simulated grain yields for mean growing season temperatures from 14 °C to 33 °C. We derived a set of new temperature response functions that when substituted in four wheat models reduced the error in grain yield simulations across seven global sites with different temperature regimes by 19% to 50% (42% average). We anticipate the improved temperature responses to be a key step to improve modelling of crops under rising temperature and climate change, leading to higher skill of crop yield projections.

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Main Authors: Wang, Enli, Martre, Pierre, Zhao, Zhigan, Ewert, Frank, Maiorano, Andrea, Rötter, Reimund P., Kimball, Bruce A., Ottman, Michael J., Wall, Gerard W., White, Jefrrey W., Reynolds, Matthew P., Alderman, Phillip, Aggarwal, Pramod K., Anothai, Jakarat, Basso, Bruno, Biernath, Christian, Cammarano, Davide, Challinor, Andrew J., De Sanctis, Giacomo, Doltra, Jordi, Dumont, Benjamin, Fereres Castiel, Elías, García Vila, Margarita, Gayler, Sebastian, Hoogenboom, Gerrit, Hunt, Leslie A., Izaurralde, Roberto C., Jabloun, Mohamed, Jones, Curtis D., Kersebaum, Kurt C., Koehler, Ann-Kristin, Liu, Leilei, Müller, Christoph, Kumar, Soora Naresh, Nendel, Claas, O'Leary, Garry, Olesen, Jørgen E., Palosuo, Taru, Priesack, Eckart, Rezaei, Ehsan Eyshi, Ripoche, Dominique, Ruane, Alexander C., Semenov, Mikhail A., Shcherbak, Iurii, Stöckle, Claudio, Stratonovitch, Pierre, Streck, Thilo, Supit, Iwan, Tao, Fulu, Thorburn, Peter, Waha, Katharina, Wallach, Daniel, Wang, Zhimin, Wolf, Joost, Zhu, Yan, Asseng, Senthold
Other Authors: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia)
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Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2017-07-17
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/166954
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description Increasing the accuracy of crop productivity estimates is a key element in planning adaptation strategies to ensure global food security under climate change. Process-based crop models are effective means to project climate impact on crop yield, but have large uncertainty in yield simulations. Here, we show that variations in the mathematical functions currently used to simulate temperature responses of physiological processes in 29 wheat models account for >50% of uncertainty in simulated grain yields for mean growing season temperatures from 14 °C to 33 °C. We derived a set of new temperature response functions that when substituted in four wheat models reduced the error in grain yield simulations across seven global sites with different temperature regimes by 19% to 50% (42% average). We anticipate the improved temperature responses to be a key step to improve modelling of crops under rising temperature and climate change, leading to higher skill of crop yield projections.
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Wang, Enli
Martre, Pierre
Zhao, Zhigan
Ewert, Frank
Maiorano, Andrea
Rötter, Reimund P.
Kimball, Bruce A.
Ottman, Michael J.
Wall, Gerard W.
White, Jefrrey W.
Reynolds, Matthew P.
Alderman, Phillip
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
Anothai, Jakarat
Basso, Bruno
Biernath, Christian
Cammarano, Davide
Challinor, Andrew J.
De Sanctis, Giacomo
Doltra, Jordi
Dumont, Benjamin
Fereres Castiel, Elías
García Vila, Margarita
Gayler, Sebastian
Hoogenboom, Gerrit
Hunt, Leslie A.
Izaurralde, Roberto C.
Jabloun, Mohamed
Jones, Curtis D.
Kersebaum, Kurt C.
Koehler, Ann-Kristin
Liu, Leilei
Müller, Christoph
Kumar, Soora Naresh
Nendel, Claas
O'Leary, Garry
Olesen, Jørgen E.
Palosuo, Taru
Priesack, Eckart
Rezaei, Ehsan Eyshi
Ripoche, Dominique
Ruane, Alexander C.
Semenov, Mikhail A.
Shcherbak, Iurii
Stöckle, Claudio
Stratonovitch, Pierre
Streck, Thilo
Supit, Iwan
Tao, Fulu
Thorburn, Peter
Waha, Katharina
Wallach, Daniel
Wang, Zhimin
Wolf, Joost
Zhu, Yan
Asseng, Senthold
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author Wang, Enli
Martre, Pierre
Zhao, Zhigan
Ewert, Frank
Maiorano, Andrea
Rötter, Reimund P.
Kimball, Bruce A.
Ottman, Michael J.
Wall, Gerard W.
White, Jefrrey W.
Reynolds, Matthew P.
Alderman, Phillip
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
Anothai, Jakarat
Basso, Bruno
Biernath, Christian
Cammarano, Davide
Challinor, Andrew J.
De Sanctis, Giacomo
Doltra, Jordi
Dumont, Benjamin
Fereres Castiel, Elías
García Vila, Margarita
Gayler, Sebastian
Hoogenboom, Gerrit
Hunt, Leslie A.
Izaurralde, Roberto C.
Jabloun, Mohamed
Jones, Curtis D.
Kersebaum, Kurt C.
Koehler, Ann-Kristin
Liu, Leilei
Müller, Christoph
Kumar, Soora Naresh
Nendel, Claas
O'Leary, Garry
Olesen, Jørgen E.
Palosuo, Taru
Priesack, Eckart
Rezaei, Ehsan Eyshi
Ripoche, Dominique
Ruane, Alexander C.
Semenov, Mikhail A.
Shcherbak, Iurii
Stöckle, Claudio
Stratonovitch, Pierre
Streck, Thilo
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Wall, Gerard W.
White, Jefrrey W.
Reynolds, Matthew P.
Alderman, Phillip
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
Anothai, Jakarat
Basso, Bruno
Biernath, Christian
Cammarano, Davide
Challinor, Andrew J.
De Sanctis, Giacomo
Doltra, Jordi
Dumont, Benjamin
Fereres Castiel, Elías
García Vila, Margarita
Gayler, Sebastian
Hoogenboom, Gerrit
Hunt, Leslie A.
Izaurralde, Roberto C.
Jabloun, Mohamed
Jones, Curtis D.
Kersebaum, Kurt C.
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Liu, Leilei
Müller, Christoph
Kumar, Soora Naresh
Nendel, Claas
O'Leary, Garry
Olesen, Jørgen E.
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Priesack, Eckart
Rezaei, Ehsan Eyshi
Ripoche, Dominique
Ruane, Alexander C.
Semenov, Mikhail A.
Shcherbak, Iurii
Stöckle, Claudio
Stratonovitch, Pierre
Streck, Thilo
Supit, Iwan
Tao, Fulu
Thorburn, Peter
Waha, Katharina
Wallach, Daniel
Wang, Zhimin
Wolf, Joost
Zhu, Yan
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The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions
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title The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions
title_short The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions
title_full The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions
title_fullStr The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions
title_full_unstemmed The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions
title_sort uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions
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spelling dig-ias-es-10261-1669542018-08-01T10:29:41Z The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions Wang, Enli Martre, Pierre Zhao, Zhigan Ewert, Frank Maiorano, Andrea Rötter, Reimund P. Kimball, Bruce A. Ottman, Michael J. Wall, Gerard W. White, Jefrrey W. Reynolds, Matthew P. Alderman, Phillip Aggarwal, Pramod K. Anothai, Jakarat Basso, Bruno Biernath, Christian Cammarano, Davide Challinor, Andrew J. De Sanctis, Giacomo Doltra, Jordi Dumont, Benjamin Fereres Castiel, Elías García Vila, Margarita Gayler, Sebastian Hoogenboom, Gerrit Hunt, Leslie A. Izaurralde, Roberto C. Jabloun, Mohamed Jones, Curtis D. Kersebaum, Kurt C. Koehler, Ann-Kristin Liu, Leilei Müller, Christoph Kumar, Soora Naresh Nendel, Claas O'Leary, Garry Olesen, Jørgen E. Palosuo, Taru Priesack, Eckart Rezaei, Ehsan Eyshi Ripoche, Dominique Ruane, Alexander C. Semenov, Mikhail A. Shcherbak, Iurii Stöckle, Claudio Stratonovitch, Pierre Streck, Thilo Supit, Iwan Tao, Fulu Thorburn, Peter Waha, Katharina Wallach, Daniel Wang, Zhimin Wolf, Joost Zhu, Yan Asseng, Senthold Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia) Chinese Academy of Sciences China Scholarship Council Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (France) European Commission International Food Policy Research Institute (US) CGIAR (France) Department of Agriculture (US) Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit Danish Council for Strategic Research Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Germany) Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry National Natural Science Foundation of China Helmholtz Association Grains Research and Development Corporation (Australia) Texas AgriLife Research Texas A&M University National Institute of Food and Agriculture (US) Increasing the accuracy of crop productivity estimates is a key element in planning adaptation strategies to ensure global food security under climate change. Process-based crop models are effective means to project climate impact on crop yield, but have large uncertainty in yield simulations. Here, we show that variations in the mathematical functions currently used to simulate temperature responses of physiological processes in 29 wheat models account for >50% of uncertainty in simulated grain yields for mean growing season temperatures from 14 °C to 33 °C. We derived a set of new temperature response functions that when substituted in four wheat models reduced the error in grain yield simulations across seven global sites with different temperature regimes by 19% to 50% (42% average). We anticipate the improved temperature responses to be a key step to improve modelling of crops under rising temperature and climate change, leading to higher skill of crop yield projections. E.W. acknowledges support from the CSIRO project ‘Enhanced modelling of genotype by environment interactions’ and the project ‘Advancing crop yield while reducing the use of water and nitrogen’ jointly funded by CSIRO and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Z.Z. received a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council through the CSIRO and the Chinese Ministry of Education PhD Research Program. P.M., A.M. and D.R. acknowledge support from the FACCE JPI MACSUR project (031A103B) through the metaprogram Adaptation of Agriculture and Forests to Climate Change (AAFCC) of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). A.M. received the support of the EU in the framework of the Marie-Curie FP7 COFUND People Programme, through the award of an AgreenSkills fellowship under grant agreement No. PCOFUND-GA-2010-267196. S.A. and D.C. acknowledge support provided by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the CGIAR Research Program on Wheat and the Wheat Initiative. C.S. was funded through USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture award 32011-68002-30191. C.M. received financial support from the KULUNDA project (01LL0905 L) and the FACCE MACSUR project (031A103B) funded through the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). F.E. received support from the FACCE MACSUR project (031A103B) funded through the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2812ERA115) and E.E.R. was funded through the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Project: PARI). M.J. and J.E.O. were funded through the FACCE MACSUR project by the Danish Strategic Research Council. K.C.K. and C.N. were funded by the FACCE MACSUR project through the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). F.T., T.P. and R.P.R. received financial support from the FACCE MACSUR project funded through the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MMM); F.T. was also funded through the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41071030). C.B. was funded through the Helmholtz project ‘REKLIM-Regional Climate Change: Causes and Effects’ Topic 9: ‘Climate Change and Air Quality’. M.P.R. and PD.A. received funding from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS). G.O'L. was funded through the Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation and the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources Victoria, Australia. R.C.I. was funded by Texas AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University. B.B. was funded by USDA-NIFA Grant No: 2015-68007-23133. 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