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SCOPE OF WORK: EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGROECOSYSTEMS
Citation:
Phillips, D. SCOPE OF WORK: EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGROECOSYSTEMS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/3-89/076 (NTIS PB90120023), 1989.
Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), is initiating a Global Climate Change Program to evaluate the potential environmental effects of climate change. This document describes one project, Effects of Global Climate Change on Agroecosystems, which will be administered at the EPA Environmental Research Laboratory-Corvallis as part of the ORD program. The document describes the areas in which research will be undertaken in this project over the next five years. The purpose of the document is twofold. First, it presents the scientific questions that must be addressed in order to answer important public policy needs concerning the potential environmental effects of global climate change on agroecosystems. Second, it describes the general research approaches that will be used to answer the scientific questions.