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Applying manure to crop cover. © INRA, FORMISANO Sophie

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21 Apr 2015

Phosphorus: a limited resource essential to agriculture in the 21st century

Modelling work conducted at planetary scale has demonstrated that, regardless of climate change models used, the availability of phosphorus determines the level of biomass production and, consequently, of carbon storage in ecosystems responding to these changes.

Summer 2003 during the heat-wave, the grasslands are completely

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10 Sep 2014

Climatic disturbances have a long-term effect on grasslands

The purpose of this study was to understand how grasslands respond to climatic variations in order to adapt practices that will favour the recovery of species and thus ensure long-term maintenance of the agricultural and environmental services rendered by grasslands.

Irish bocage, County Wexford. © INRA, FOUCAUD-SCHEUNEMANN Catherine

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04 Sep 2014

Climate change: adapting agricultural production systems

An estimation of the effects of climate change on European agricultural production using different climate change scenarios reveals significant contrasts across regions.