The STICS soil-crop model: a generic model to simulate the functioning of agroecosystems
摘要
The STICS model was developed in the mid-1990s by a group of INRA crop scientists from diverse research units in France. This acronym stands for “multidisciplinary standard crops simulator” (Simulateur mulTIdisciplinaire pour les Cultures Standard, in French). Behind STICS lies a story based on a collective project that owes a lot to the first coordinator of the STICS “adventure”, the late Nadine Brisson. The STICS model was born from the project ECOSPACE – “heterogeneity of cultivated environments”, an INRAE’s (Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture l’alimentation et l’environnement, France) AIP program (Action Incitative Programmée), which provided an opportunity to combine the expertises of three former departments of Bioclimatology, Agronomy and Soil Sciences. At that time, there were already agronomic models available at the international level with different orientations: photosynthetic production models (e.g. SUCROS), biogeochemical models (e.g. PASTIS, CENTURY) and more generalist soil-crop models (e.g. CERES, EPIC, APSIM, CROPSYS). While some of these models were in the process of being adapted to the French context, a bunch of French researchers sought to merge the most recent crop science knowledge in a new agroecosystem model: STICS.