A need to assess future bioclimatic conditions that could affect maize production in Portugal

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the stated research gap and future-work section and stated challenges and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2025 and 2026, spanning 5 journals. Those papers have been cited 39 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 8 representative gaps

• Agroclimatic Indicator Analysis Under Climate Change Conditions to Predict the Climatic Suitability for Wheat Production in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia (2025) · Agriculture · cited 10× · doi

  The study identifies a gap in understanding the impacts of climate change on agroclimatic conditions and wheat suitability in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. The research highlights the need for integrating climate projections with agroclimatic modeling to assess the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity.

  generalstated research gap
  Keywords: study identifies gap understanding impacts climate change agroclimatic
• Projected Bioclimatic Changes in Portugal: Assessing Maize Future Suitability (2025) · Agronomy · cited 9× · doi

  The study identifies a need to assess future bioclimatic conditions that could affect maize production in Portugal. There is a gap in understanding the spatial distribution of bioclimatic conditions for maize crop growth. The study aims to fill this gap by analyzing historical and future climate scenarios.

  generalstated research gap
  Keywords: study identifies need assess future bioclimatic conditions affect
• Projected Bioclimatic Changes in Portugal: Assessing Maize Future Suitability (2025) · Agronomy · cited 9× · doi

  The use of maximum and minimum temperature data to analyze their impact on critical maize growth stages - Applying climate data correction methods to improve the accuracy of projections - The use of daily precipitation data to assess the ability of the soil to store water - Investigate the impacts of specific agricultural practices under different climate scenarios - Exploring the interactive effects of multiple abiotic stressors on maize production, using crop growth models - Further analyzing the results in terms of spatial resolution, as the NUT II areas are large

  generalfuture-work section
  Keywords: use maximum minimum temperature data analyze impact critical
• Projected Bioclimatic Changes in Portugal: Assessing Maize Future Suitability (2025) · Agronomy · cited 9× · doi

  The study identifies challenges related to climate change and its impact on maize production in Portugal. The analysis highlights the need to adapt to increasing aridity and changing temperature conditions. The study discusses the challenges of maintaining maize production in the face of declining precipitation and increasing temperature.

  generalstated challenges
  Keywords: study identifies challenges related climate change impact maize
• Promote or inhibit: how climate policy uncertainty may shape extreme weather’s impact on grain production (2026) · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · doi

  refine climate indicators by focusing on crop critical growth stages and employing more precise metrics, - utilize county-level grain production data and policy text data to improve variable matching, - employ more cutting-edge approaches such as machine learning to mitigate endogeneity concerns, - introduce CPU into other areas of agricultural sector research

  generalfuture-work section
  Keywords: refine climate indicators focusing crop critical growth stages
• Promote or inhibit: how climate policy uncertainty may shape extreme weather’s impact on grain production (2026) · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · doi

  The study faces the challenge of quantifying the impact of climate policy uncertainty on grain production. The research must account for the heterogeneity of climate and CPU fluctuations in different regions. The study needs to address the complexity of the relationship between temperature, precipitation, and grain yields.

  generalstated challenges
  Keywords: study faces challenge quantifying impact climate policy uncertainty
• Rising vapor pressure deficit threatens maize water productivity in the Yellow River Basin under climate warming (2026) · Agricultural Water Management · cited 2× · doi

  Maize production is highly vulnerable to rising vapor pressure deficit (VPD), yet its agricultural-scale impacts remain insufficiently characterized due to the lack of integrated assessments linking spatiotemporal VPD dynamics with crop-level water productivity (WP), particularly the relative contributions of yield and evapotranspiration (ET) under varying atmospheric drought conditions.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: maize production highly vulnerable rising vapor pressure deficit agricultural scale impacts remain insufficiently characterized lack
• Climate Change Projections: Application of the Statistical Downscaling Model in the Souss-Massa Watershed (2026) · Hydrology · doi

  Further research is needed to improve the performance of the model for precipitation. The study suggests the need to consider multiple global climate models to reduce the uncertainty associated with climate projections. Future research should focus on analyzing the impacts of climate change on agricultural activities in the Souss-Massa watershed.

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 4/5
  Keywords: further research needed improve performance model precipitation study

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