地球表层系统作业地球表层统作业.docVIP

2013年研究生课程《地球表层系统》作业 说明：（1）本作业包括5题，每题20分；（2）下期开学一月内交纸质版。 一、翻译： This paper examines possible adaptations to climate change in terms of pasture and crop land use and stocking rate in the United States (U.S.). Using Agricultural Census and climate data in a statistical model, we find that as temperature and precipitation increases agricultural commodity producers respond by reducing crop land and increasing pasture land. In addition, cattle stocking rate decreases as the summer Temperature-humidity Index (THI) increases and summer precipitation decreases. Using the statistical model with clima