“…Other tropical forage modelling groups have used biophysical models, such as APSIM (Araujo et al., ), ALMANAC (Kiniry et al., ), global‐scale process‐based models such as Orchidee Grassland Management Model (Chang et al., ; Parton, Schimel, Cole, & Ojima, ; Parton et al., ; ), Century Agroecosystem Model (Metherell, Harding, Cole, & Parton, ; Parton et al., ) and empirical models based on climatic variables (Cruz, Santos, Pezzopane, Oliveira, & de Araujo, ; Pezzopane, Santos, Mendonça, de Araujo, & da Cruz, ; Tonato, Barioni, Pedreira, Dantas, & Malaquias, ). However, there is a lack of understanding of many complex interactions among genotypic traits, environment and management that could be explored by using detailed mechanistic simulation modelling (Andrade et al., ; Jones et al., ).…”