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	Courbe de teneur en eau du sol	Modèles de croissance des cultures (DSSAT/APSIM)
Domaine	Agronomie	Agronomie
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1956-1980	1993-2003
Auteur d'origine	Willard Robert Gardner, Rollin H. Brooks, Arthur T. Corey	James W. Jones, Gerbrand T. Hoogenboom (DSSAT); Brian A. Keating, Peter S. Carberry (APSIM)
Type	Empirical soil water retention model	Mechanistic crop simulation pipeline
Source fondatrice	Gardner, W. R. (1956). Representation of soil aggregate-size distribution by a logarithmic-normal distribution. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 20(2), 151-153.	Jones, J. W., Hoogenboom, G., Porter, C. H., et al. (2003). The DSSAT cropping system model. European Journal of Agronomy, 18(3-4), 235-265.
Alias	Water Retention Curve, pF Curve, Characteristic Curve, SWRC	DSSAT, APSIM, Crop Simulation Model
Apparentées	3	3
Résumé	The soil moisture curve (or soil water retention curve, SWRC) describes the relationship between soil water content and soil matric potential (water tension). It characterizes how tightly water is bound in pores of different sizes: large pores drain at low tensions (wet soils), while smaller pores retain water at high tensions (dry soils). Quantifying this relationship is essential for water balance modeling, unsaturated flow prediction, and assessing plant-available water.	Crop growth models are mechanistic simulation systems designed to predict crop development, biomass accumulation, and yield under varying environmental and management conditions. DSSAT (Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer) and APSIM (Agricultural Production Systems Simulator) are the most widely used platforms, developed in the 1990s-2000s to support agronomic decision-making and climate adaptation research.