How can semi-arid agrosystems adapt to expected changes in climate and anthropogenic forcing?
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 Submitted by fpa-jacob Categorized as Earth System Tagged as adaptation, agriculture, agrosystems, efficiency, population, semi-arid regions, water 0 Due to growths in water scarcities and population needs, agrosystems in semi-arid region have to increase their agronomic performances in terms of water use efficiencies and yields, where both can be regarded at the scale of regional watersheds that include several compartments (shallow and deep aquifers, crop mosaics, hydro-agricultural constructions) in relation with distribution of blue and green water. Decision support systems for the benefit of stakeholders have to be strengthened by relying on biophysically based modeling platform that encompass the aforementioned compartments and the related water flows. This requires first parameterizing and calibrating the modeling platform components, where the use of remote sensing if of prime interest for constraining models in a spatially distributed manner, and
