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Assessing the impact of climate changes on the potential yields of maize and paddy rice in Northeast China by 2050

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Northeast China is the main crop production region in China, and future climate change will directly impact crop potential yields, so exploring crop potential yields under future climate scenarios in Northeast China is extremely critical for ensuring future food security. Here, this study projected the climate changes using 12 general circulation models (GCMs) under two moderate Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios (RCP 4.5 and 6.0) from 2015 to 2050. Then, based on the Global Agro-ecological Zones (GAEZ) model, we explored the effect of climate change on the potential yields of maize and paddy rice in Northeast China during 2015–2050. The annual relative humidity increased almost throughout the Northeast China under two RCPs. The annual precipitation increased more than 400 mm in some west, east, and south areas under RCP 4.5, but decreased slightly in some areas under RCP 6.0. The annual wind speed increased over 2 m/s in the west region. The annual net solar radiation changes varied significantly with latitude, but the changes of annual maximum temperature and minimum temperature were closely related to the terrain. Under RCP 4.5, the average maize potential yield increased by 34.31% under the influence of climate changes from 2015 to 2050. The average rice potential yield increased by 16.82% from 2015 to 2050. Under RCP 6.0, the average maize and rice potential yields increased by 25.65% and 6.34% respectively. The changes of maize potential yields were positively correlated with the changes of precipitation, wind speed, and net solar radiation (the correlation coefficients were > 0.2), and negatively correlated with the changes of relative humidity, minimum and maximum temperature under two RCPs. The changes of rice potential yields were positively correlated with the changes of precipitation (correlation coefficient = 0.15) under RCP 4.5. Under RCP 6.0, it had a slight positive correlation with net solar radiation, relative humidity, and wind speed.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma (OU), USA. We also thank Xiaocui Wu, Jilin Yang, Wen Zhuo, and HaoranYang of OU for their help.

Funding

This work was funded by the auspices of Multi-source heterogeneous data acquisition technology and data integration (No. XDA2003020301), National Key Research and Development Program (No. 2017YFC0504202), Technological Basic Research Program of China (No. 2017FY101301) and China Scholarship Council (No. 201806170212).

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  1. College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China

    Luoman Pu

  2. Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, China

    Luoman Pu, Shuwen Zhang, Jiuchun Yang & Liping Chang

  3. Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA

    Luoman Pu & Xiangming Xiao

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Pu, L., Zhang, S., Yang, J. et al. Assessing the impact of climate changes on the potential yields of maize and paddy rice in Northeast China by 2050. Theor Appl Climatol 140, 167–182 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-019-03081-7

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