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Climate variability has major impacts in many parts of the world,
including Australia. Developments in understanding of the El Nino -
Southern Oscillation Phenomenon have introduced some skill in
seasonal to inter-annual climate forecasting. Can this skill be
harnessed to advantage? Or do we just continue to observe these
impacts? How does a decision-maker managing an agricultural or
natural ecosystem modify decisions in response to a skillful, but
imprecise, seasonal climate forecast? Using Australian experience
as a basis, this book focuses on these questions in pursuing means
to better manage climate risks. The state of the science in climate
forecasting is reviewed before considering detailed examples of
applications to: farm scale agricultural decisions (such as
management of cropping and grazing systems); regional and national
scale agricultural decisions (such as commodity trading and
government policy); and natural systems (such as water resources,
pests and diseases, and natural fauna). Many of the examples
highlight the participatory and inter-disciplinary approach
required among decision-makers, resource systems
scientists/analysts, and climate scientists to bring about the
effective applications. The experiences discussed provide valuable
insights beyond the geographical and disciplinary focus of this
book. The book is ideally suited to professionals and postgraduate
students in ecology, agricultural climatology, environmental
planning, and climate science."
Climate variability has major impacts in many parts of the world,
including Australia. Developments in understanding of the El Nino -
Southern Oscillation Phenomenon have introduced some skill in
seasonal to inter-annual climate forecasting. Can this skill be
harnessed to advantage? Or do we just continue to observe these
impacts? How does a decision-maker managing an agricultural or
natural ecosystem modify decisions in response to a skillful, but
imprecise, seasonal climate forecast? Using Australian experience
as a basis, this book focuses on these questions in pursuing means
to better manage climate risks. The state of the science in climate
forecasting is reviewed before considering detailed examples of
applications to: farm scale agricultural decisions (such as
management of cropping and grazing systems); regional and national
scale agricultural decisions (such as commodity trading and
government policy); and natural systems (such as water resources,
pests and diseases, and natural fauna). Many of the examples
highlight the participatory and inter-disciplinary approach
required among decision-makers, resource systems
scientists/analysts, and climate scientists to bring about the
effective applications. The experiences discussed provide valuable
insights beyond the geographical and disciplinary focus of this
book. The book is ideally suited to professionals and postgraduate
students in ecology, agricultural climatology, environmental
planning, and climate science."
Plant Adaptation and Crop Improvement focuses on the opportunities
for increasing the efficiency of crop improvement by understanding
the basis of variation for plant adaptation in agricultural
production systems. Crop improvement strategies based on
combinations of the statistical modelling methodologies used by
plant breeders and the crop modelling methodologies used by crop
physiologists/agronomists are developed and discussed. The book
captures much of the experience of scientists from around the world
who have worked on the challenging problem of achieving crop
improvement in variable crop production systems. It represents a
major synthesis for workers in plant breeding, crop physiology and
agronomy.
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