Modelling water and nutrient dynamics in soil-crop systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Modelling water and nutrient dynamics in soil–crop systems: a comparison of simulation models applied on common data sets

   • Kurt Christian Kersebaum, Jens-Martin Hecker, Wilfried Mirschel, Martin Wegehenkel

   Pages 1-17

3. The performance of the model AMBAV for evapotranspiration and soil moisture on Müncheberg data

   • Hans Friesland, Franz-Josef Löpmeier

   Pages 19-26

4. Performance of the model SIMWASER in two contrasting case studies on soil water movement

   • Elmar Stenitzer, Heiko Diestel, Uwe Franko, Reinhild Schwartengräber, Thomas Zenker

   Pages 27-36

5. Application and validation of the models Theseus and Opus with two field experimental data sets

   • Martin Wegehenkel, Wilfried Mirschel

   Pages 37-49

6. Integrating a spatial micrometeorological model into the risk assessment for arable crops in hilly terrain

   • Marco Acutis, Gianfranco Rana, Patrizia Trevisiol, Luca Bechini, Mario Laudato, R. Ferrara et al.

   Pages 51-57

7. Modelling soil–crop interactions with AGROSIM model family

   • Wilfried Mirschel, Karl-Otto Wenkel

   Pages 59-73

8. Crop simulation model of the second and the third productivity levels

   • Ratmir Aleksandrovich Poluektov, Vitaly Viktorovich Terleev

   Pages 75-89

9. The NDICEA model, a tool to improve nitrogen use efficiency in cropping systems

   • Geert Jan H. M. van der Burgt, Gerard J. M. Oomen, A. S. J. Habets, Walter A. H. Rossing

   Pages 91-110

10. Simulation of water and nitrogen flows on field scale; application of the SWAP–ANIMO model for the Müncheberg data set

    • Joop Kroes, Jan Roelsma

    Pages 111-128

11. Evaluation of water and nutrient dynamics in soil–crop systems using the eco-hydrological catchment model SWIM

    • Joachim Post, Anja Habeck, Fred Hattermann, Valentina Krysanova, Frank Wechsung, Felicitas Suckow

    Pages 129-146

12. Modelling nitrogen dynamics in soil–crop systems with HERMES

    • Kurt Christian Kersebaum

    Pages 147-160

13. Calibration and validation of CERES model for simulating

    • Ajeet Singh Nain, Kurt Christian Kersebaum

    Pages 161-181

14. The impact of crop growth model choice on the simulated water and nitrogen balances

    • Eckart Priesack, Sebastian Gayler, Hans P. Hartmann

    Pages 183-195

15. Simulating trends in crop yield and soil carbon in a long-term experiment – effects of rising CO2, N deposition and improved cultivation

    • Jørgen Berntsen, Bjørn Molt Petersen, Jørgen E. Olesen

    Pages 197-207

16. Comparison of methods for the estimation of inert carbon suitable for initialisation of the CANDY model

    • Martina Puhlmann, Katrin Kuka, Uwe Franko

    Pages 209-218

17. Müncheberg field trial data set for agro-ecosystem model validation

    • Wilfried Mirschel, Karl-Otto Wenkel, Martin Wegehenkel, Kurt Christian Kersebaum, Uwe Schindler, Jens-Martin Hecker

    Pages 219-243

18. Dynamics of water, carbon and nitrogen in an agricultural used Chernozem soil in Central Germany

    • Uwe Franko, Martina Puhlmann, Katrin Kuka, Frank Böhme, Ines Merbach

    Pages 245-258

19. The lysimeter station at Berlin-Dahlem

    • Heiko Diestel, Thomas Zenker, Reinhild Schwartengraeber, Marco Schmidt

    Pages 259-266

20. Back Matter

    Pages 267-271

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Soil–crop–atmosphere interactions play a central role in well with the interest of agro-meteorologists, who the multiple functions of rural landscapes. Agricultural, look for new applications and for customers of their environmental and economic aspects are related to this products. Therefore, the workshop was gratefully s- topic, and there is an increasing need to understand the ported by the COST Action 718 “Meteorological complex system to develop reliable models for scenario Applications in Agriculture” under the umbrella of the analyses. Agro-ecosystem models are more and more European Science Foundation (ESF). In June 2004, used to support decision-making on different scales the workshop was held in Müncheberg with the p- towards a sustainable land use and management. ticipation of 38 scientists from nine different coun- Nevertheless, the increasing demand of model users for tries. Twenty presentations were given for the blocks model validation does not fit to the decrease of research experimental site description, water dynamic mod- budgets for suitable experimental research and monitor- ling, soil and crop interactions, nutrient and water ing. The increasing family of modellers is confronted dynamics in soil–crop systems and long-term nutrient with a decrease of available data for model testing. and carbon dynamics. Model workshops providing common data sets for The organizers wish to acknowledge the financial a number of modellers are not new, but became rare contribution of the European Science Foundation during the last years. Therefore, the Leibniz Centre of (ESF) and COST 718.

• AgroMicro
• Scale
• adaptation
• ecosystem
• moisture
• soil

• Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e. V. Müncheberg, Germany

  Kurt Christian Kersebaum, Jens-Martin Hecker, Wilfried Mirschel, Martin Wegehenkel

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