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Author (up) Hempel, S.; Janke, D.; König, M.; Menz, C.; Englisch, A.; Pinto, S.; Sibony, V.; Halachmi, I.; Rong, L.; Zong, C.; Zhang, G.; Sanchis, E.; Estelle, F.; Calvet, S.; Galan, E.; del Prado, A.; Ammon, C.; Amon, B.; Amon, T.
Title Integrated modelling to assess optimisation potentials for cattle housing climate Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Advances in Animal Biosciences Abbreviated Journal Advances in Animal Biosciences
Volume 7 Issue 03 Pages 261-262
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 4862
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Author (up) Hoffmann, H.; Zhao, G.; Asseng, S.; Bindi, M.; Biernath, C.; Constantin, J.; Coucheney, E.; Dechow, R.; Doro, L.; Eckersten, H.; Gaiser, T.; Grosz, B.; Heinlein, F.; Kassie, B.T.; Kersebaum, K.-C.; Klein, C.; Kuhnert, M.; Lewan, E.; Moriondo, M.; Nendel, C.; Priesack, E.; Raynal, H.; Roggero, P.P.; Rötter, R.P.; Siebert, S.; Specka, X.; Tao, F.; Teixeira, E.; Trombi, G.; Wallach, D.; Weihermüller, L.; Yeluripati, J.; Ewert, F.
Title Impact of spatial soil and climate input data aggregation on regional yield simulations Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication PLoS One Abbreviated Journal PLoS One
Volume 11 Issue 4 Pages e0151782
Keywords systems simulation; nitrogen dynamics; winter-wheat; crop models; data resolution; scale; water; variability; calibration; weather
Abstract We show the error in water-limited yields simulated by crop models which is associated with spatially aggregated soil and climate input data. Crop simulations at large scales (regional, national, continental) frequently use input data of low resolution. Therefore, climate and soil data are often generated via averaging and sampling by area majority. This may bias simulated yields at large scales, varying largely across models. Thus, we evaluated the error associated with spatially aggregated soil and climate data for 14 crop models. Yields of winter wheat and silage maize were simulated under water-limited production conditions. We calculated this error from crop yields simulated at spatial resolutions from 1 to 100 km for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Most models showed yields biased by <15% when aggregating only soil data. The relative mean absolute error (rMAE) of most models using aggregated soil data was in the range or larger than the inter-annual or inter-model variability in yields. This error increased further when both climate and soil data were aggregated. Distinct error patterns indicate that the rMAE may be estimated from few soil variables. Illustrating the range of these aggregation effects across models, this study is a first step towards an ex-ante assessment of aggregation errors in large-scale simulations.
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Author (up) Hoffmann, H.; Zhao, G.; Asseng, S.A.U.-,; Bindi, M.; Cammarano, D.; Constantin, J.; Coucheney, E.; Dechow, R.; Doro, L.; Eckersten, H.; Gaiser, T.; Grosz, B.; Haas, E.; Kassie, B.; Kersebaum, K.C.; Kiese, R.; Klatt, S.; Kuhnert, M.; Lewan, E.; Moriondo, M.; Nendel, C.; Raynal, H.; Roggero, P.P.; Rötter, R.; Siebert, S.; Sosa, C.; Specka, X.; Tao, F.; Teixeira, E.; Trombi, G.; Yeluripati, J.; Vanuytrecht, E.; Wallach, D.; Wang, E.; Weihermüller, L.; Zhao, Z.; Ewert, F.
Title Analysing data aggregation effects on large-scale yield simulations Type Conference Article
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Publisher Place of Publication Berlin (Germany) Editor
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Area Expedition Conference International Crop Modelling Symposium iCROPM 2016, 2016-05-15 to 2016-05-17, Berlin, Germany
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Author (up) Höglind, M.; Van Oijen, M.; Cameron, D.; Persson, T.
Title Process-based simulation of growth and overwintering of grassland using the BASGRA model Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Ecological Modelling Abbreviated Journal Ecol. Model.
Volume 335 Issue Pages 1-15
Keywords Cold hardening; Frost injury; Phleum pratense L.; Process-based; modelling; Winter survival; Yield; low-temperature tolerance; perennial forage crops; dry-matter; production; climate-change; nutritive-value; snow-cover; bayesian; calibration; timothy regrowth; phleum-pratense; lolium-perenne
Abstract Process-based models (PBM) for simulation of weather dependent grass growth can assist farmers and plant breeders in addressing the challenges of climate change by simulating alternative roads of adaptation. They can also provide management decision support under current conditions. A drawback of existing grass models is that they do not take into account the effect of winter stresses, limiting their use for full-year simulations in areas where winter survival is a key factor for yield security. Here, we present a novel full-year PBM for grassland named BASGRA. It was developed by combining the LINGRA grassland model (Van Oijen et al., 2005a) with models for cold hardening and soil physical winter processes. We present the model and show how it was parameterized for timothy (Phleum pratense L.), the most important forage grass in Scandinavia and parts of North America and Asia. Uniquely, BASGRA simulates the processes taking place in the sward during the transition from summer to winter, including growth cessation and gradual cold hardening, and functions for simulating plant injury due to low temperatures, snow and ice affecting regrowth in spring. For the calibration, we used detailed data from five different locations in Norway, covering a wide range of agroclimatic regions, day lengths (latitudes from 59 degrees to 70 degrees N) and soil conditions. The total dataset included 11 variables, notably above-ground dry matter, leaf area index, tiller density, content of C reserves, and frost tolerance. All data were used in the calibration. When BASGRA was run with the maximum a-posteriori (MAP) parameter vector from the single, Bayesian calibration, nearly all measured variables were simulated to an overall normalized root mean squared error (NRMSE) <0.5. For many site x experiment combinations, NRMSE was <0.3. The temporal dynamics were captured well for most variables, as evaluated by comparing simulated time courses versus data for the individual sites. The results may suggest that BASGRA is a reasonably robust model, allowing for simulation of growth and several important underlying processes with acceptable accuracy for a range of agroclimatic conditions. However, the robustness of the model needs to be tested further using independent data from a wide range of growing conditions. Finally we show an example of application of the model, comparing overwintering risks in two climatically different sites, and discuss future model applications. Further development work should include improved simulation of the dynamics of C reserves, and validation of winter tiller dynamics against independent data. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Author (up) Holman, I.
Title How do models treat climate change adaptation? Type Conference Article
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Abstract Presentation SC 8.4 Impact indicators & models. How do models treat climate change adaptation?, Ian Holman, Cranfield University, United Kingdom (2016). Presented at the international conference Adaptation Futures 2016, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. No Label
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Area Expedition Conference AdaptationFutures 2016, 10-13 May 2016, Rotterdam
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