Claim · model-written summary
Combined heat and drought stress caused 49% wheat yield loss on average, while independent heat and drought caused 27% and 22% losses
Triticum aestivumVerbatim
t0“Interactive effects of heat and drought on wheat yield”
e0“On average, combined stress led to 49% yield loss, indicating no between-stressor interaction as independent heat and drought caused 27% and 22% losses”
Title
Arisede Chisaka; John P. Hammond; Shinichi Nakagawa; et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2026. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2026.111189
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation On average, combined heat and drought stress showed no between-stressor interaction
- Intervention effect Independent stressors causing moderate yield losses caused greater losses in combination than expected from their independent effects
- Observation Severe heat and drought stressors interacted antagonistically on wheat yield
- Method / resource A meta-regression model based on the yield losses from independent stressors predicted combined-stress impacts
- Observation Combined stress impacts varied widely around the average yield loss
- Recommendation Site-specific adaptation to future climate change is needed, informed by simple experiments on the independent stressors