Modeling Processes & Their Interactions

A complete discussion of soil-plant-climate-management processes

In Modeling Processes and Their Interactions in Cropping Systems: Challenges for the 21st Century, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive and up-to-date scientific textbook devoted to teaching the modeling of soil-plant-climate-management processes at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels. The book emphasizes the new opportunities and paradigms available to modern lab and field researchers and aims to improve their understanding and quantification of individual processes and their interactions.

The book helps readers quantify field research results in terms of the fundamental theory and concepts broadly generalizable beyond specific sites, as well as predict experimental results from knowledge of the fundamental factors that determine the environment and plant growth in different climates. Readers will also discover:

• An introduction to water and chemical transport in the soil matrix and macropores
• Explorations of heat transport, water balance, snowpack, and soil freezing
• Discussions of merging machine learning with APSIM models to improve the evaluation of the impact of climate extremes on wheat yields in Australia
• Examinations of the quantification and modeling of management effects on soil properties, including discussions of tillage, reconsolidation, crop residues, and crop management

The book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the 2030 breakthroughs in agriculture identified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

作物系統中的過程建模及其相互作用

對土壤-植物-氣候-管理過程進行全面討論

在《作物系統中的過程建模及其相互作用：21世紀的挑戰》一書中，一個由傑出研究人員組成的團隊提供了一本全面且最新的科學教材，專注於教授土壤-植物-氣候-管理過程的建模，適用於高年級本科生和研究生。該書強調現代實驗室和田間研究人員所面臨的新機遇和範式，旨在提高他們對個別過程及其相互作用的理解和量化。

該書幫助讀者將田間研究結果量化為廣泛適用於特定場地以外的基本理論和概念，並根據決定不同氣候下環境和植物生長的基本因素預測實驗結果。讀者還將發現：

• 介紹土壤基質和大孔隙中的水和化學物質運輸


• 探討熱傳遞、水平衡、積雪和土壤凍結


• 討論將機器學習與APSIM模型相結合，以改進對澳大利亞小麥產量受氣候極端事件影響評估的方法


• 研究管理對土壤性質的量化和建模，包括耕作、再壓實、作物殘留物和作物管理的討論

該書對於對國家科學、工程和醫學院校所確定的2030年農業突破具有興趣的任何人來說都是必讀之書。

Lajpat R. Ahuja, PhD, is the former Supervisory Research Soil Scientist and Research Leader at USDA-ARS, Agricultural Systems Research, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.

Kurt C. Kersebaum, PhD, is Senior Scientist at Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Müncheberg, Germany and honorary professor at Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany.

Ole Wendroth, PhD, is Professor of Soil Physics at the University of Kentucky-College of Agricultural Food and Environment, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, USA.

Lajpat R. Ahuja, PhD，是美國農業部農業研究局（USDA-ARS）農業系統研究部門前監督研究土壤科學家和研究領導者，位於美國科羅拉多州福特柯林斯。

Kurt C. Kersebaum, PhD，是德國慕尼黑農業景觀研究中心（Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Müncheberg）的高級科學家，並擔任德國哥廷根大學（Georg-August University）的名譽教授。

Ole Wendroth, PhD，是美國肯塔基大學農業食品和環境學院植物和土壤科學系的土壤物理學教授。