Collection(s) : Update sciences & technologies
Paru le 19/01/2009 | Broché 297 pages
Professionnels
The STICS crop model has been developed since 1996 at INRA (French National Institute for Agronomic Research) in collaboration with other research and technical institutes.
The model syntheses, illustrates and concretizes an important part of the French agronomic knowledge as a point of view on the field and cropping systems working. The formalisations of the STICS crop model presented in this book can be considered as references used in the framework of crop sciences. They will help professionals and students in the partitioning and understanding of the complex agronomic system. The book arrangement relies on the way the model designs the crop-soil system functioning, each chapter being devoted to a set of important functions such as growth initiation, yield onset, water uptake, transformation of organic matter etc. One chapter deals with the cropping system and long term simulations and the final chapter is about the involvement of the user in terms of option choices and parameterization.
If this book is mainly intended for scientists who use the STICS model, it can also be useful for agronomists, crop modellers, students and technicians looking for elementary formalizations of the crop-soil system functioning.
Nadine Brisson is a crop scientist, working at INRA. She is at the origin of STICS and has a large experience in crop modelling built, for twenty years, from various approaches, issues and crops. She is involved in programs where the model is used in various ways as a heuristic, prospective or experimental tool. She is head of the INRA-agroclimatic service.
Marie Launay is a crop scientist, working at INRA. She is responsible for STICS agrophysiology and is particularly involved in STICS adaptation to new crops. She is in charge of training and communication about the model. She is now at the head of the research project on biotic stress formatizations into the crop model.
Bruno Mary is a senior scientist, working at INRA. He developed the STICS modules devoted to the crop and soil nitrogen balance. For almost thirty years, he has been studying soil C and N cycles by associating experimental and modelling approaches, either with mechanistic or functional models. He collaborates in several programs concerning C and N storage, N gaseous emissions and N mineralization, in various agro-ecosystems.
Nicolas Beaudoin is an agronomist, working at INRA as research engineer. He contributed to the soil module conception and parameterisation. He uses STICS for predicting nitrate leaching and crop yield at several spatial scales and for studying the long term nitrogen balance of various cropping systems, including crop devoted to energy production.
