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Maize yield increases by about 9.4% for every 1 m/s decrease in growing-season wind speed anomaly, after controlling for temperature and precipitation.
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e1“maize yield increases by ~9.4% for every 1 m·s−1 decrease in growing-season wind speed anomaly after controlling for temperature and precipitation”
Title
Zongliang Zhang; Jialu Xu; Yuzhong Zhang; et al. Nature Communications 2025. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-64725-z
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Association Three decades of decreasing wind speed (1980-2010) enhanced Chinese maize production by 101.2 Mt, fully offsetting the loss from warming.
- Association The compensatory effect of wind on maize has rapidly diminished in the last decade because wind trends reversed.
- Method / resource Crop models substantially underestimate the wind effect on maize.
- Observation Expanding areas of China are experiencing both increasing wind speeds and warming temperatures.