The effect of future climate variability combined with geographic and soil information from Sardinia island, Italy on agriculture in Mediterranean region, was investigated using a Land Capability for Agriculture (LCA) classification system. By the use of soil and land cover maps, the territory of Sardinia was classified in pedological LCA classes ranging from 1 to 8. The climatic LCA classification was extended to the whole island territory using temperature and precipitation data from about 200 weather stations. The results show that LCA classification is sensitive to weather variability and that the determination of climatic risk for agriculture requires climatic variability to be included into Land Evaluation models.
Effect of future climatic variability on agriculture in a mediterranean region / Duce, Pierpaolo; Arca, Antonio; Canu, Simona; Spano, Donatella Emma Ignazia; Motroni, Andrea. - (2004), pp. 225-229. (Intervento presentato al convegno 26th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology tenutosi a Vancouver, BC, can nel 2004).
Effect of future climatic variability on agriculture in a mediterranean region
SPANO, Donatella Emma Ignazia;
2004-01-01
Abstract
The effect of future climate variability combined with geographic and soil information from Sardinia island, Italy on agriculture in Mediterranean region, was investigated using a Land Capability for Agriculture (LCA) classification system. By the use of soil and land cover maps, the territory of Sardinia was classified in pedological LCA classes ranging from 1 to 8. The climatic LCA classification was extended to the whole island territory using temperature and precipitation data from about 200 weather stations. The results show that LCA classification is sensitive to weather variability and that the determination of climatic risk for agriculture requires climatic variability to be included into Land Evaluation models.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
