Crop modelling: Current status and opportunities to advance

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 456, Issue , 1998, Pages 27-36

  Hammer, G L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crop model template; Crop physiology; Emergent properties; Optimisation; Simulation; Systems analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879466645     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1998.456.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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