The potential of mathematical models is widely acknowledged for examining components
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practices have served as focal points for soil quality (SQ) research and assessment …

Conservation agriculture (CA) involves complex and interactive processes that ultimately
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Simulation models represent soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in global carbon (C) cycle
scenarios to support climate‐change studies. It is imperative to increase confidence in long …

Evaluation is an essential step of model development. However, there is a missing definition
of appropriate validation strategies, needed to guarantee reproducibility and generalizability …

For the estimation of the soil organic carbon stocks, bulk density (BD) is a fundamental
parameter but measured data are usually not available especially when dealing with legacy …

This study aims at characterizing agricultural drought in Ethiopia and understanding the
effects of drought on crop yield. Monthly, seasonal and annual Normalized Difference …

Daily solar radiation is an input required by most crop growth, development and yield
simulation models. It is, however, not observed at many locations, preventing the application …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents procedures that can be used for pedotransfer
functions (PTFs) evaluation. Model testing requires that both model inputs and measured …