Review of quantitative tools to assess the diffuse pollution response to farm adaptation and mitigation under climate change (Shepherd et al.)
Lead
Anita Shepherd
Contributors
Anita Shepherd, David Chadwick, Lianhai Wu, Roland Bol.
Keywords
model review, agriculture, nitrogen leaching, emission
Description
The paper is a literary review to evaluate thirty published models for their capability to simulate agricultural production systems and associated environmental system losses under a changing climate, and their ability to introduce farmer adaptation and mitigation methods. The paper focuses on the applicability of the models given a set of essential criteria related to scale, biophysical processes, and land management. Models are examined, based on details found in published papers, against specific criteria, viz: (1) spatial scale and temporal scale, ease of use, and ability to consider a change in climate; (2) ability to simulate nutrient cycling processes, specifically carbon and nitrogen dynamics with microbial turnover, mineralization– immobilization, nitrification and denitrification, plant nutrient uptake, and phosphorus cycling; (3) ability to consider a water balance and water movement through soil; and (4) ability to introduce and modify agricultural practices relating to crop and livestock management. The paper does not compare any actual model simulations.
This is an old model comparison now, and some models will have been updated, but it contains comparison tables on the facets of many models and may be informative.
Progress
finished
Publications
Shephard, A., LianhaiWu, David Chadwick, and Roland Bol A Review of Quantitative Tools for Assessing the DiffusePollution Response to Farmer Adaptations and Mitigation Methods Under Climate Change. Advances in Agronomy, Volume 112, 2011.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123855381000019
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385538-1.00001-9
Considered models
30 different agri-environmental models