Modeling soil nutrient limitations to crop production in semiarid NE of Brazil with a modified EPIC version: II: Field test of the model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 567-580

  Barros, Inácio De ^a   Williams, Jimmy R ^b   Gaiser, Thomas ^c  

^a Ctr Coop Internationale Rech A   (France)

^b BLACKLAND RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brazil; Modeling; Nutrient availability; Nutrient uptake; Semiarid

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT OMISSION; PLANT BIOMASS; SOIL NUTRIENTS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERTILIZERS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); SOILS;

CROPS;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; MODEL TEST; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL NUTRIENT; YIELD;

CALIBRATION; FARM CROPS; FERTILIZERS; GRAIN; SIMULATION; SOIL;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 8844281967     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.03.018     Document Type: Article

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