Modeling Processes and Their Interactions in Cropping Systems – Challenges for the 21st Century: Advances in Agricultural Systems Modeling

Lajpat R. Ahuja, PhD, is the former Supervisory Research Soil Scientist and Research Leader at USDA-ARS, Agricultural Systems Research, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Kurt C. Kersebaum, PhD, is Senior Scientist at Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Müncheberg, Germany and honorary professor at Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany. Ole Wendroth, PhD, is Professor of Soil Physics at the University of Kentucky-College of Agricultural Food and Environment, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, USA.

* WATER AND CHEMICAL TRANSPORT IN SOIL MATRIX AND MACROPORES * HEAT TRANSPORT, WATER BALANCE, SNOWPACK AND SOIL FREEZING * EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, TRANPIRATION AND EVAPORATION IN THE SOIL-RESIDUE-CANOPY SYSTEM * PHOTOSYNTHESIS, PLANT WATER, STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE AND EVAPO-TRANSPIRATION, NORMAL AND EXTREME CLIMATIC CONDITIONS * SOIL ORGANIC MATTER AND CARBON-NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS * EQUILIBRIUM SOIL CHEMISTRY SUBMODELS * PESTICIDE DISSIPATION AND FATE IN AGRICULTURAL SETTINGS: ASURVEY OF RESEARCH ON PROCESSES AND INCORPORTION OF NEW UNDERSTANDING INTO SIMULATION PEC SIMULATION MODELS 2000-2020 * MODELING OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS, CROP ROOT AND SHOOT GROWTH AND PRODUCTION IN LEADING CROP MODELS -LEGUMES * SIMULATING MAIZE CROP PROCESSES IN DSSAT: CSM-CERES-MAIZE VS. CSM-IXIM-MAIZE * EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON ET, PHOTOSYNTHESIS, CROP GROWTH, AND YIELD PROCESSES IN LEADING CROP MODELS * QUANTIFYING AND MODELING MANAGEMENT EFFECTS ON SOIL PROPERTIES: TILLAGE, RECONSOILDATION, AND CROP RESIDUES * INTEGRATING MODELS WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH