Evolution of the STICS crop model to tackle new environmental issues: New formalisms and integration in the modelling and simulation platform RECORD

Agricultural production systems modelling and software: Current status and future prospects

“…Most prominent were the developments of APES (Donatelli et al, 2010), AQUACROP Raes et al, 2009;Steduto et al, 2009), INFOCROP (Aggarwal et al, 2006). New modelling frameworks have also been created; OMS (David et al, 2013), RECORD (Bergez et al, 2014), BioMA (https://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/BioMA) as an extension of APES; and OpenMI (Gregersen et al, 2005;Knapen et al, 2013).…”

Modelling soybean yield responses to seeding date under projected climate change scenarios

“…For example, how crop growth responses to CO 2 concentrations are modelled. In the CSM-CROPGRO-Soybean model, CO 2 concentration affects photosynthesis and evapotranspiration (Pickering et al 1995), whereas in the STICS model, CO 2 concentration modifies radiation use efficiency (Bergez et al 2014). Another example is in modelling yield formation as described previously.…”

“…In this study, potential evapotranspiration was calculated using the PriestleyTaylor equation (Priestley and Taylor 1972). The effect of CO 2 concentration on radiation use efficiency is expressed using an exponential function adapted from Stockle et al (1992), and is included in the STICS model (Bergez et al 2014). The seed yield formation is calculated by applying a harvest index increasing linearly with days after flowering (Spaeth and Sinclair 1985) and shoot biomass.…”

A taxonomy-based approach to shed light on the babel of mathematical models for rice simulation

“…Major updates primarily consist of the incorporation of new approaches for specific sub-domains (GEMRICE, Yoshida et al, 2011;WARM, Confalonieri et al, 2012;STICS;Bergez et al, 2014) or extension to encompass processes not included in previous versions (APSIM-Oryza, Gaydon et al, 2012a). Other improvements are ongoing for many models, in part due to activities performed within the AgMIP Rice Team.…”