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Probabilistic assessment of drought impacts on wheat yield in south-eastern Australia

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  • Xiang, Keyu
  • Wang, Bin
  • Liu, De Li
  • Chen, Chao
  • Waters, Cathy
  • Huete, Alfredo
  • Yu, Qiang

Abstract

A risk-based approach is more meaningful to quantify the effects of drought on crop yield given the randomness nature of past drought events, compared to the deterministic approach. However, the majority of these probabilistic studies are conducted at national or global scale to assess the yield loss probability under given drought conditions. There is still a lack of research combining droughts and crop yields in a probabilistic way at a local scale. Moreover, it is unclear how drought threshold triggering yield loss at a given conditional probability will vary in dryland cropping regions. Here, we used wheat yield data from 66 shires in New South Wales (NSW) wheat belt and meteorological data from 986 weather stations. A copula-based probabilistic method was developed to explore the yield loss probability to various drought conditions. We investigated the drought threshold under a given yield loss probability using the constructed copula function. We found that SPEI-6 in October was the optimal drought index to represent detrended wheat yield variation as this period covered the main growth stages of winter wheat in the study region. Our results show that as the severity of drought increased, the wheat yield loss probability also increased. Yield loss probability varied among the study shires, mainly due to the various climate conditions of each region. The drought threshold in subregion 1 (the northwest) was highest, followed by subregion 2 (the southwest) and subregion 3 (the eastern), indicating that wheat yield in subregion 1 was more sensitive to drought. The findings could provide important direction and benchmarks for stakeholders in evaluating the agricultural impact of drought, especially in those drought prone areas. We expect that the methodological framework developed here can be extended to other dryland areas to provide helpful information to growers, risk management policy makers and agricultural insurance evaluators.

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  • Xiang, Keyu & Wang, Bin & Liu, De Li & Chen, Chao & Waters, Cathy & Huete, Alfredo & Yu, Qiang, 2023. "Probabilistic assessment of drought impacts on wheat yield in south-eastern Australia," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 284(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:284:y:2023:i:c:s037837742300224x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108359
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    1. Ping Zhang & Zhuo Chen & Gang Ding & Jiaqi Fang & Jinglong Fan & Shengyu Li, 2024. "Spatial Analysis and Risk Assessment of Meteorological Disasters Affecting Cotton Cultivation in Xinjiang: A Comprehensive Model Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(12), pages 1-17, June.

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