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Different submodels within complex model packages on N regimes — for plant N-uptake, net N-mineralization, nitrate leaching and microbial N immobilization — are critically reviewed mainly with regard to their prediction ability on the basis of three comparative papers. Only for some of the processes adequate statistical evaluation of the models was possible. Compared to the other statistically evaluable process, nitrate leaching, modeling of plant N-uptake yields the better results. Most models for mineralization use arbitrary approaches rather than empirical ones. Although only approximate estimates of N mineralisation were at hand, the models generally behave expectedly poor. Only one model — DAISY — out of 16 involved in the comparison uses an explicit microbial biomass sub-model including microbial growth, decline and maintenance terms. So DAISY is the only model coupling C and N cycles. But what is true for an individual model describing the C and N transformation of a lab incubation experiment seems to be valid for most of the complex simulation work on the C and N regimes: this model was said to be overparameterized with respect to the available data.
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Richter, J., Benbi, D.K. (1996). Modeling of nitrogen transformations and translocations. In: Van Cleemput, O., Hofman, G., Vermoesen, A. (eds) Progress in Nitrogen Cycling Studies. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5450-5_72
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