Diversification of crop rotations is considered an option to increase the resilience of European crop production under climate change. So far, however, many crop simulation studies have focused on predicting single crops in separate one-year simulations. Here, we compared the capability of fifteen crop growth simulation models to predict yields in crop rotations at five sites across Europe under minimal calibration. Crop rotations encompassed 301 seasons of ten crop types common to European agriculture and a diverse set of treatments (irrigation, fertilisation, CO2 concentration, soil types, tillage, residues, intermediate or catch crops). We found that the continuous simulation of multi-year crop rotations yielded results of slightly higher quality compared to the simulation of single years and single crops. Intermediate crops (oilseed radish and grass vegetation) were simulated less accurately than main crops (cereals). The majority of models performed better for the treatments of increased CO2 and nitrogen fertilisation than for irrigation and soil-related treatments. The yield simulation of the multi-model ensemble reduced the error compared to single-model simulations.

Crop rotation modelling-A European model intercomparison / Kollas, Chris; Kersebaum, Kurt Christian; Nendel, Claas; Manevski, Kiril; Müller, Christoph; Palosuo, Taru; Armas-Herrera, Cecilia M.; Beaudoin, Nicolas; Bindi, Marco; Charfeddine, Monia; Conradt, Tobias; Constantin, Julie; Eitzinger, Josef; Ewert, Frank; Ferrise, Roberto; Gaiser, Thomas; Cortazar-Atauri, Iñaki Garcia de; Giglio, Luisa; Hlavinka, Petr; Hoffmann, Holger; Hoffmann, Munir P.; Launay, Marie; Manderscheid, Remy; Mary, Bruno; Mirschel, Wilfried; Moriondo, Marco; Olesen, Jørgen E.; Öztürk, Isik; Pacholski, Andreas; Ripoche-Wachter, Dominique; Roggero, Pier Paolo; Roncossek, Svenja; Rötter, Reimund P.; Ruget, Françoise; Sharif, Behzad; Trnka, Mirek; Ventrella, Domenico; Waha, Katharina; Wegehenkel, Martin; Weigel, Hans-Joachim; Wu, Lianhai. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY. - ISSN 1161-0301. - STAMPA. - 70:(2015), pp. 98-111. [10.1016/j.eja.2015.06.007]

Crop rotation modelling-A European model intercomparison

BINDI, MARCO;FERRISE, ROBERTO;MORIONDO, MARCO;
2015

Abstract

Diversification of crop rotations is considered an option to increase the resilience of European crop production under climate change. So far, however, many crop simulation studies have focused on predicting single crops in separate one-year simulations. Here, we compared the capability of fifteen crop growth simulation models to predict yields in crop rotations at five sites across Europe under minimal calibration. Crop rotations encompassed 301 seasons of ten crop types common to European agriculture and a diverse set of treatments (irrigation, fertilisation, CO2 concentration, soil types, tillage, residues, intermediate or catch crops). We found that the continuous simulation of multi-year crop rotations yielded results of slightly higher quality compared to the simulation of single years and single crops. Intermediate crops (oilseed radish and grass vegetation) were simulated less accurately than main crops (cereals). The majority of models performed better for the treatments of increased CO2 and nitrogen fertilisation than for irrigation and soil-related treatments. The yield simulation of the multi-model ensemble reduced the error compared to single-model simulations.
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Kollas, Chris; Kersebaum, Kurt Christian; Nendel, Claas; Manevski, Kiril; Müller, Christoph; Palosuo, Taru; Armas-Herrera, Cecilia M.; Beaudoin, Nicolas; Bindi, Marco; Charfeddine, Monia; Conradt, Tobias; Constantin, Julie; Eitzinger, Josef; Ewert, Frank; Ferrise, Roberto; Gaiser, Thomas; Cortazar-Atauri, Iñaki Garcia de; Giglio, Luisa; Hlavinka, Petr; Hoffmann, Holger; Hoffmann, Munir P.; Launay, Marie; Manderscheid, Remy; Mary, Bruno; Mirschel, Wilfried; Moriondo, Marco; Olesen, Jørgen E.; Öztürk, Isik; Pacholski, Andreas; Ripoche-Wachter, Dominique; Roggero, Pier Paolo; Roncossek, Svenja; Rötter, Reimund P.; Ruget, Françoise; Sharif, Behzad; Trnka, Mirek; Ventrella, Domenico; Waha, Katharina; Wegehenkel, Martin; Weigel, Hans-Joachim; Wu, Lianhai
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