title: Injury Profile SIMulator, a qualitative aggregative modelling framework to predict crop injury profile as a function of cropping practices, and the abiotic and biotic environment. I. Conceptual bases.
abstract: The limitation of damage caused by pests (plant pathogens, weeds, and animal pests) in any agricultural crop requires integrated management strategies. Although significant efforts have been made to i) develop, and to a lesser extent ii) combine genetic, biological, cultural, physical and chemical control methods in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies (vertical integration), there is a need for tools to help manage Injury Profiles (horizontal integration). Farmers design cropping systems according to their goals, knowledge, cognition and perception of socio-economic and technological drivers as well as their physical, biological, and chemical environment. In return, a given cropping system, in a given production situation will exhibit a unique injury profile, defined as a dynamic vector of the main injuries affecting the crop. This simple description of agroecosystems has been used to develop IPSIM (Injury Profile SIMulator), a modelling framework to predict injury profiles as a function of cropping practices, abiotic and biotic environment. Due to the tremendous complexity of agroecosystems, a simple holistic aggregative approach was chosen instead of attempting to couple detailed models. This paper describes the conceptual bases of IPSIM, an aggregative hierarchical framework and a method to help specify IPSIM for a given crop. A companion paper presents a proof of concept of the proposed approach for a single disease of a major crop (eyespot on wheat). In the future, IPSIM could be used as a tool to help design ex-ante IPM strategies at the field scale if coupled with a damage sub-model, and a multicriteria sub-model that assesses the social, environmental, and economic performances of simulated agroecosystems. In addition, IPSIM could also be used to help make diagnoses on commercial fields. It is important to point out that the presented concepts are not crop- or pest-specific and that IPSIM can be used on any crop.
authors.affiliation: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1248 Agrosystèmes et Agricultures, Gestion des Ressources, Innovations et Ruralités, Castanet-Tolosan, France ; Université Toulouse, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1248 Agrosystèmes et Agricultures, Gestion des Ressources, Innovations et Ruralités, Castanet-Tolosan, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Noël
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Aubertot
authors.forename: Marie-Hélène
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Robin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018556:Crops, Agricultural; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012984:Software
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