Modelling soil organic carbon 1. Performance of APSIM crop and pasture modules against long-term experimental data

Geoderma

Volumn 264, Issue , 2016, Pages 227-237

  O'Leary, Garry J ^a   Liu, De Li ^b   Ma, Yuchun ^b,c   Li, Frank Yonghong ^d   McCaskill, Malcolm ^e   Conyers, Mark ^b   Dalal, Ram ^f   Reeves, Steven ^f   Page, Kathryn ^f   Dang, Yash P ^g   Robertson, Fiona ^e  

^a Transport and Resources   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Transport and Resources   (Australia)

^f DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

APSIM; Carbon accounting; Carbon stocks; Simulation; Validation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; LOCATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SOILS;

APSIM; CARBON ACCOUNTING; CARBON STOCKS; SIMULATION; VALIDATION;

ORGANIC CARBON;

AGRONOMY; CROPPING PRACTICE; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; PASTURE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL TYPE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WHEAT;

AUSTRALIA; HAMILTON [VICTORIA]; NEW SOUTH WALES; QUEENSLAND; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA]; WAGGA WAGGA; WARWICK [QUEENSLAND];

HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84946744250     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.11.004     Document Type: Article

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