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This chapter offers a general presentation of the STICS soil-crop model. Through numerous illustrations dealing notably with genetic x environment x management interactions, it presents an overview of the wide domain of validity of the model, along with its performances, demonstrating its potential for a wide range of agronomic and environmental applications. Since the beginning of its story in the early 90’s, STICS has been able to remain a generic and robust model that allows to simulate the functioning of agro-ecosystems, both in temperate and tropical environments. As highlighted in this chapter, and particularly in the last two sections, many efforts were, and are still, put to keep the model up-to-date and in a permanent state of evolution towards better representation of cropping systems, allowing to analyze novel research and applied questions.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The STICS model: overview
- 3 Accounting for genetic differences at species andcultivar levels
- 4 STICS simulated crop species
- 5 Current applications: accounting for Genotype xEnvironment x Management (GxExM) interactions
- 6 The contribution of STICS to the internationalAgriculture Model Intercomparison andImprovement Project (AgMIP)
- 7 Recent STICS model improvements: crop-relatedfeatures
- 8 Recent STICS model improvements: soil-relatedprocesses
- 9 Recent STICS model improvements: new modulesand tools
- 10 Areas for further model enhancement
- 11 Conclusion
- 12 Where to look for further information
- 13 Acknowledgements
- 14 References