The models are used to help guide the formulation of new field and laboratory experiments and then are tested and revised in accordance with the new data. The model can simulate the dynamics of grassland, agricultural crop, forest, and savanna systems. The soil organic submodel simulates the flow of C, N, P, and S throught plant litter and the different inorganic and organic pools in the soil. Click here for version 4. While most of the core algorithms of the model have not changed, the organization of the code, the programming language, and many of the file formats are new.
Documentation is now entirely in HTML format, and available online.
Click here for version 5. SLIK-ECO is an ongoing project involving the development of a user friendly interface that is used to run environmental simulation models.