Evaluating methods to simulate crop rotations for climate impact assessments  A case study on the Canterbury plains of New Zealand ?
We test different methods to simulate yield, water use and soil N in crop rotations. A sensitivity analysis was used to compare multi-year simulations with four crops. Methods combined single/multiple runs of re-initialised/continuous soil conditions. Soil variables were more sensitive to simulation methods than yield variables. Outputs were more sensitive to simulation method for limited crop growth conditions.
crop rotation apsim climate change crop modelling