Advances in Crop Modelling for a Sustainable Agriculture.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boote, K. J.

Series:

Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science, 2059-6936 ; number 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food crops--Mathematical models.

Food crops.

Agricultural systems--Mathematical models.

Agricultural systems.

Sustainable agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (543 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, 2019.

Summary:

"This collection provides a comprehensive review of key advances in crop modelling, with a focus on developing the next generation of whole-farm models to improve decision making and support for farmers. Chapters review advances in modelling individual components of agricultural systems such as plant responses to environmental conditions, crop growth stages, nutrient and water cycles as well as pest/disease dynamics. The book also addresses the challenges of combining modular sub-systems into whole farm system models, including integration of rotations, intercropping and livestock. Chapters also review the performance of specific models such as APSIM and DSSAT and the challenges of developing decision support systems (DSS) from such models. The book also considers landscape models such as agroecological zone (AEZ) models and Coordinated Global and Regional Assessments (CGRA). The final part of the book reviews wider issues in improving model reliability such as data sharing and the supply of real-time data as well as crop model inter-comparison."

Contents:

Advances and improvements in modeling plant processes / Soo-Hyung Kim, Jennifer Hsiao, Hanna Kinmonth-Schultz

Functional-structural plant modeling of plants and crops / Jochem B. Evers, Leo F.M. Marcelis

Improving modeling of nutrient cycles in crop cultivation / Upendra Singh, Cheryl Porter

Improving modelling of water cycles in crop cultivation / Claudio O. Stöckle, Francisco Meza

Improving crop pest/disease modeling / J.M. Fernandes, W. Pavan, Gerrit Hoogenboom

Whole-farm system models in practice: diverse applications / Alison M. Laing, Cam K. McDonald, Andrew J. Ash, Diane B. Prestwidge, Holger Meinke

The DSSAT crop modeling ecosystem / Gerrit Hoogenboom, Cheryl H. Porter, Kenneth J. Boote, Vakhtang Shelia, Paul W. Wilkens, Upendra Singh, Jeffrey W. White, Senthold Asseng, Jon I. Lizaso, L. Patricia Moreno, Richard Ogoshi, L. Anthony Hunt, Gordon Y. Tsuji, James W. Jones

Modeling crop rotation: capturing short- and long-term feedbacks for sustainability and soil health / B. Basso, R.A. Martinez-Feria, B. Dumont

Integrating livestock production into whole-farm system models of mixed crop-livestocks systems / Katrien Descheemaeker, Lindsay Bell

Integrating economic simulation models with whole-farm system models for ex ante technology impact assessment / John M. Antle

Developing climate-based decision support systems from agricultural systems models / Clyde W. Fraisse, Norman E. Breuer, Victor Cabrera

Landscape models to support sustainable intensification of agroecological systems / C. Nendel, P. Zander

Agroecosystem models for delivering ecosystem services / Jerry L. Hatfield, Christian Dold, Erica J. Kistner-Thomas, Kenneth M. Wacha

Data for developing, testing and applying crop and farm models / Frits K. van Evert

Dealing with uncertainty in crop models / Daniel Wallach

Crop simulation model inter-comparison and improvement / Senthold Asseng, Pierre Martre, Frank Ewert

The future of crop modeling for sutainable agriculture / K.J. Boote.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-78676-242-0

1-78676-243-9

0-429-26659-6

9780429266591

OCLC:

1130902586