NITIRSOIL: A model that balances complexity with prediction uncertainty for improving nitrogen fertilization in agriculture
Mismanagement of the nitrogen (N) fertilization in agriculture leads to low N use efficiency (NUE) and therefore pollution of waters and atmosphere due to NO3 leaching, and N2O and NH3 emissions. The use of N simulation models of the soil-plant system can help improve the N fertilizer management...
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| author | De-Paz, José M. Ramos, Carlos Visconti, Fernando de-paz |
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| description | Mismanagement of the nitrogen (N) fertilization in agriculture leads to low N use efficiency (NUE) and therefore
pollution of waters and atmosphere due to NO3 leaching, and N2O and NH3 emissions. The use of N simulation
models of the soil-plant system can help improve the N fertilizer management increasing NUE and decreasing N
pollution issues. However, many N simulation models lack balance between complexity and uncertainty with the
result that they are not applied in actual practice. The NITIRSOIL is a one-dimensional transient-state model with
a monthly time step that aims at addressing this lack in the estimation of, mainly, dry matter yield (DMY), crop N
uptake (Nupt), soil mineral N (Nmin), and NO3 leaching in agricultural fields. According to its global sensitivity
analysis for horticulture, the NITIRSOIL simulations of the aforementioned outputs mostly depend on the critical
N dilution curve, harvest index, dry matter fraction, potential fresh yield and nitrification coefficients. According
to its validation for 35 nitrogen fertilization trials with 11 vegetables under semi-arid Mediterranean climate in
Eastern Spain, the NITIRSOIL presents indices of agreement between 0.87 and 0.97 for the prediction of total dry
matter, DMY, Nupt, NO3 leaching and soil Nmin at crop season end. Therefore, the NITIRSOIL model can be used
in actual practice to improve the sustainability of the N management in, particularly horticulture, due to the
balance it features between complexity and prediction uncertainty. For this aim, the NITRISOIL can be used
either on its own, or in combination with “Nmin” on-site N fertilization recommendation methods, or even could
be implemented as the calculation core of decision support systems |
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| spelling | ReDivia90292025-04-25T14:49:49Z NITIRSOIL: A model that balances complexity with prediction uncertainty for improving nitrogen fertilization in agriculture De-Paz, José M. Ramos, Carlos Visconti, Fernando de-paz Modelling NUE Nmin method Global sensitivity analysis F04 Fertilizing Nitrogen Horticulture Mismanagement of the nitrogen (N) fertilization in agriculture leads to low N use efficiency (NUE) and therefore pollution of waters and atmosphere due to NO3 leaching, and N2O and NH3 emissions. The use of N simulation models of the soil-plant system can help improve the N fertilizer management increasing NUE and decreasing N pollution issues. However, many N simulation models lack balance between complexity and uncertainty with the result that they are not applied in actual practice. The NITIRSOIL is a one-dimensional transient-state model with a monthly time step that aims at addressing this lack in the estimation of, mainly, dry matter yield (DMY), crop N uptake (Nupt), soil mineral N (Nmin), and NO3 leaching in agricultural fields. According to its global sensitivity analysis for horticulture, the NITIRSOIL simulations of the aforementioned outputs mostly depend on the critical N dilution curve, harvest index, dry matter fraction, potential fresh yield and nitrification coefficients. According to its validation for 35 nitrogen fertilization trials with 11 vegetables under semi-arid Mediterranean climate in Eastern Spain, the NITIRSOIL presents indices of agreement between 0.87 and 0.97 for the prediction of total dry matter, DMY, Nupt, NO3 leaching and soil Nmin at crop season end. Therefore, the NITIRSOIL model can be used in actual practice to improve the sustainability of the N management in, particularly horticulture, due to the balance it features between complexity and prediction uncertainty. For this aim, the NITRISOIL can be used either on its own, or in combination with “Nmin” on-site N fertilization recommendation methods, or even could be implemented as the calculation core of decision support systems 2025-02-19T11:05:40Z 2025-02-19T11:05:40Z 2024 article acceptedVersion De Paz, J. M., Ramos, C., & Visconti, F. (2024). NITIRSOIL: A model that balances complexity with prediction uncertainty for improving nitrogen fertilization in agriculture. Journal of Environmental Management, 366, 121746. 1095-8630 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/9029 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121746 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479724017328 en This work was funded by SostEC-Sabio project number 52203 (Generalitat Valenciana-Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones agrarias- IVIA). info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ERDF/PCV 2021-2027/52203/ES/Sostenibilidad y economía circular como ejes de desarrollo del sector agrario valenciano: suelo, agua y biodiversidad/SostE-SABio Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ openAccess Elsevier electronico |
| spellingShingle | Modelling NUE Nmin method Global sensitivity analysis F04 Fertilizing Nitrogen Horticulture De-Paz, José M. Ramos, Carlos Visconti, Fernando de-paz NITIRSOIL: A model that balances complexity with prediction uncertainty for improving nitrogen fertilization in agriculture |
| title | NITIRSOIL: A model that balances complexity with prediction uncertainty for improving nitrogen fertilization in agriculture |
| title_full | NITIRSOIL: A model that balances complexity with prediction uncertainty for improving nitrogen fertilization in agriculture |
| title_fullStr | NITIRSOIL: A model that balances complexity with prediction uncertainty for improving nitrogen fertilization in agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | NITIRSOIL: A model that balances complexity with prediction uncertainty for improving nitrogen fertilization in agriculture |
| title_short | NITIRSOIL: A model that balances complexity with prediction uncertainty for improving nitrogen fertilization in agriculture |
| title_sort | nitirsoil a model that balances complexity with prediction uncertainty for improving nitrogen fertilization in agriculture |
| topic | Modelling NUE Nmin method Global sensitivity analysis F04 Fertilizing Nitrogen Horticulture |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/9029 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479724017328 |
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