Philip K. Thornton

41.8k citations
313 papers · 24.3k indexed · 17 hit papers · h-index 78
Topics
Climate change impacts on agriculture (119 papers)Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (65 papers)Agricultural Innovations and Practices (58 papers)
Journals
ScienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesSHILAP Revista de lepidopterología

In The Last Decade

Philip K. Thornton

298 papers receiving 22.4k citations

Hit Papers

Livestock production: recent trends, future prosp...1998202620072016201020132013201420094008001.2k

Peers

Philip K. Thornton
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  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 7.9k
  • Ecology 6.4k
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4.4k
  • Global and Planetary Change 4.4k
  • Plant Science 4.2k
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All Works

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High-resolution and bias-corrected CMIP5 projections for climate change impact assessmentsbreakdown →
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Exploring opportunities around climate-smart breeding for future food and nutrition security
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Use of a crop climate modeling system to evaluate climate change adaptation practices: maize yield in East Africa
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Climate change, agriculture and food security: linking research and action in East and West Africa
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Coping with drought and climate change in the pastoral sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy considerations
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Livestock and climate change
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The temporal dynamics of crop yield responses to climate change in East Africa
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Crop-livestock intensification and interactions across three continents: main report
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Application of a simple agricultural land-use model to the studying of market dynamics and technological change in a landscape in the Colombian Andes
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Will human population growth and land-use change control tsetse during our life times?
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Smallholder dairy technology in coastal Kenya. An adoption and impact study
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An ex post economic impact assessment of planted forages in West Africa
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Experimentation with a beef production model for the savannas of Colombia
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About Philip K. Thornton

Philip K. Thornton is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 313 papers that have together received 24.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (119 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (65 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (58 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4.4k citations), Soil Science (4.0k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (7.9k citations). Philip K. Thornton has collaborated with scholars based in Kenya, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Mario Herrero, Peter G. Jones, An Notenbaert, Andrew J. Challinor, Robin S. Reid, Peter Jones, Pierre Gerber, Polly Ericksen, Gerrit Hoogenboom and Peter Havlík. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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