Managed plantations of saltbush have the potential to increase productivity and climate resilience farming systems low rainfall areas world, where livestock are important. The objective was dynamically simulate behaviour grazing with a new modelling capacity in APSIM framework enable dynamic forage systems. Scenarios simulated included: choice plant species growing interrow area between shrub-r...

The mineralization/immobilization of nitrogen when organic sources are added to soil is represented in many simulation models as the outcome of decomposition of the added material and synthesis of soil organic matter. These models are able to capture the pattern of N release that is attributable to the N concentration of plant materials, or more generally the C:N ratio of the organic input. How...

Climate change threatened rice production in the semi-arid region of Nigeria. Agricultural is affected by variations weather conditions and long-term climate patterns. The pattern changing last three decades indicated that changes rainfall temperature reduced agriculture outputs yields, which significant rice. A farm experiment was set up with six cultivars APSIM model used to simulate grain yi...

Soil evaporation (Es) and crop transpiration (Tc) are important components of water balance in cropping systems. Comparing the accurate calculation by models Es Tc to measured has significant advances optimal configuration resource evaluation accuracy estimating consumption. To evaluate adaptation APSIM (Agricultural Production Systems simulator) calculating Nanjing, model parameters, including...

While several statistical methods are available to analyse model sensitivity, their application to complex process-based models is often impractical due to the large number of simulation runs required. A Bayesian approach to global sensitivity analysis can greatly reduce the number of simulation runs required by building an emulator of the model which is less computationally demanding. A Gaussi...

Climate change and variability threaten the sustainability of future food production, especially in semi-arid regions where water resources are limited irrigated agriculture is widespread. Increasing temperatures will exacerbate evaporative losses increase plant needs. In this regard, higher irrigation intensities have been posited as a solution to mitigate climate impacts these regions. Here, ...

Ongoing climate change is already affecting crop production patterns worldwide. Our aim was to investigate how increasing temperature and CO 2 as well changes in precipitation could affect potential yields for different historical pedoclimatic conditions at high latitudes (i.e., >55°). The APSIM model used simulate the productivity of four annual crops (barley, forage maize, oats, spring...