Modelling biodiversity in agriculture

Modelling biodiversity in agricultureModels have been widely used in agricultural science to understand complexity, predict the consequence of change and extend knowledge to new scales. Crop modelling began in the 1960s and is now well advanced and applied globally, but is restricted to a few economic species. More recently, modelling has been expanded to cover biota as mediators of ecological process or as end points for assessment of environmental status. This chapter looks at the

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