Modeling Freezing Injury in Alfalfa to Calculate Forage Yield: II. Model Validation and Example Simulations
Modeling Freezing Injury in Alfalfa to Calculate Forage Yield: II. Model Validation and Example Simulations
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DOI:
10.2134/agronj1998.00021962009000050020x
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发表时间:
1998-09
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2.1
通讯作者:
V. Kanneganti;W. Bland;D. Undersander
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作者:
V. Kanneganti;W. Bland;D. Undersander
Freezing injury can cause extensive yield loss in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) exposed to severe winters in cold climates. Alfalfa models must simulate freezing injury effects in a cumulative way, so that forage dry matter (DM) yield can be accurately calculated during multiple years of a crop. A companion paper presents ALFACOLD, an alfalfa simulation model developed by integrating functions of cold tolerance, fall dormancy, and freezing injury into the ALSIM 1 (Level 2) alfalfa model. The ALFACOLD model calculates forage yield on a daily basis, while simulating freezing injury across multiple years of the same crop. The objective of this study was to test the ALFACOLD model's ability to calculate field-measured forage DM yield. The model was tested against measured forage yield from 39 cultivars seeded in two years and managed under a 4-cut system for 3 yr after the seeding year at two sites in Wisconsin. Averaged across the sites, cultivars, and years, the ALFACOLD model calculated annual forage DM yield to within 12% of the measured yield, compared with an error of 35% with the ALSIM modeL A regression of field-measured yield of individual harvests (n = 874) on the corresponding ALFACOLD calculated yield indicated that 70% of the measured variability in forage yield was explained by the model. The average difference between measured and calculated DM yield for Harvests 1, 2, and 3 was <7%, but the model overcalculated fourth-cut yield by 38%. Averaged across all sites, cultivars, years, and cuts, the ALFACOLD model calculated yield with an average SD of 600 kg ha -1 cut -1 .