Auswirkungen einer Klimaänderung auf Agrarökosysteme in Oesterreich

The overall goal of the project is to assess potential climate change impacts on agroecosystems at selected major agricultural regions in Upper Austria, Northeast Austria and Southeast Austria using different crop-weather dynamical models. The major objectives of the research are: ¿ to calibrate and validate crop-weather models within agroecosystems for maize, winter wheat and spring barley for the environmental conditions in the regions of interest; ¿ to develop appropriate incremental and GCM climate change scenarios for the selected regions; ¿ to assess potential vulnerability of agroecosystems under the projected climate change scenarios during the 21st century at the selected regions using different crop-weather models; ¿ to assess possible adaptation measures in agrotechnology for the selected regions under different climate change and management scenarios using different crop-weather models; ¿ to compare and analyze the results, simulated by different crop-weather models in order to estimate the differences in model performance and related uncertainties; ¿ to integrate all climate change impact results including the outputs obtained during the previous FWF project "Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments of Agroecosystems in Northeast Austria under Climate Change"