An overview of the crop model stics

Modelling soybean yield responses to seeding date under projected climate change scenarios

“…STICS is a dynamic soil-crop simulation model (Brisson et al 2003). It was initially parameterized and evaluated for bare soil, winter wheat, and corn crops (Brisson et al 1998).…”

“…It was initially parameterized and evaluated for bare soil, winter wheat, and corn crops (Brisson et al 1998). It has been adapted for other crops such as rapeseed, sunflower, soybean, flax, tomato, sorghum, lettuce, mustard, sugar beet, and potato (Brisson et al 2003).…”

Leaf area index simulation in soybean grown under near-optimal conditions

“…A typical LAI pattern begins with a lag increase early in the season, followed by a rapid increase of LAI until a maximum value is reached, then a decline of LAI as leaves senesce and plants reaches physiological maturity. There have been several approaches to simulating LAI in soybean crop simulation models (Boote et al, 1998; or in generic crop models applicable to soybean (Boogard et al, 1998;Brisson et al, 2003;Robertson et al, 2002).…”

“…Because of the exponential growth of sink-driven LAI (driven by the recursive algorithm), the sink-limited leaf area growth rate always becomes unreasonably high later in the growing season, causing the source-driven functions to become the determining factor for the end results of simulated LAI. Brisson et al (2003) provided flexible options for simulating LAI in the STICS-model. These options were standard, "more sophisticated" and a 5-parameter direct approach.…”

Assessing and modeling economic and environmental impact of wheat nitrogen management in Belgium

“…The STICS crop growth model (STICS V6.9) used in this study has been described in detail in several papers (Brisson et al, 2003(Brisson et al, , 2009. The model simulates the carbon dynamic, which is impacted by water and N stresses in the soil-plant-atmosphere system on a day-by-day basis (Palosuo et al, 2011).…”