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Modification of a spatially referenced crop model to simulate the effect of spatial pattern of subsoil salinity

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/5369/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2010.09.006
 
Title Modification of a spatially referenced crop model to simulate the effect of spatial pattern of subsoil salinity
 
Creator Dixit, P N
Chen, D
 
Subject Soil Science
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description High levels of subsoil salinity limit the growth and yield of dryland cereals in the Victorian southern Mallee, Australia. Currently available crop simulation models of wheat production perform poorly in this region, presumably due to their inability to account for subsoil limitations, mainly salinity. The objective of this work was to modify a spatially referenced Water and Nitrogen Management Model (WNMM) to account for the spatial pattern of subsoil salinity, by adjusting crop water uptake, in order to explain the spatial variation in wheat yield in this area. Measurements of above-ground biomass and yield of wheat, and the profile of soil salinity (0–80 cm) were made at 40 locations across an 88 ha paddock (35.78°S, 142.98°E) in the Victorian southern Mallee. The S-shaped water stress response function for crop water uptake proposed by van Genuchten (1987) was explored to modify the WNMM by adjusting the water uptake due to salinity, which significantly improved yield simulation over the original WNMM. The improvement in the model's ability to simulate wheat yield indicates that the subsoil salinity limits crop performance in the area. The incorporation of a salinity function in spatial crop models offers potential for simulating yield across a landscape and thus practicing precision agriculture provided salinity impact is considered dynamically.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5369/1/Comp-Elec-Agri_74_2010_313-320.pdf
Dixit, P N and Chen, D (2010) Modification of a spatially referenced crop model to simulate the effect of spatial pattern of subsoil salinity. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 74 (2). pp. 313-320. ISSN 0168-1699