title: [Development of APSIM (agricultural production systems simulator) and its application].
abstract: Soil-crop simulator model is an effective tool for providing decision on agricultural management. APSIM (Agricultural Production Systems Simulator) was developed to simulate the biophysical process in farming system, and particularly in the economic and ecological features of the systems under climatic risk. The current literatures revealed that APSIM could be applied in wide zone, including temperate continental, temperate maritime, sub-tropic and arid climate, and Mediterranean climates, with the soil type of clay, duplex soil, vertisol, silt sandy, silt loam and silt clay loam. More than 20 crops have been simulated well. APSIM is powerful on describing crop structure, crop sequence, yield prediction, and quality control as well as erosion estimation under different planting pattern.
authors.affiliation: College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Gansu Grassland Ecological Research Institute, Lanzhou. yuyingshen@163.net
authors.forename: Yuying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Zhibiao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Nan
authors.forename: Bill
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bellotti
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xinqing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shao
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003198:Computer Simulation; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000502:physiology*; D004190:Disasters; D017753:Ecosystem; D012106:Research; D031786:Saccharum / Q000502:physiology; D012987:Soil
chemical_list: D012987:Soil