• A fruit growth approach to estimate oil content in olives 

      López Bernal, Álvaro; Fernandes-Silva, Anabela A.; Vega, Victorino A.; Hidalgo, Juan C.; León, Lorenzo; Testi, Luca; Villalobos, Francisco J. (Elsevier, 2021)
      Harvest timing in olive orchards has a strong effect on the quality and quantity of oil yield, but many farmers still lack simple and affordable quantitative tools for rationally deciding appropriate harvest dates. This ...
    • ClimaSG: A weather generator for crop modelling and water requirements studies 

      Mairech, Hanene; López Bernal, Álvaro; Testi, Luca; Villalobos, Francisco J. (Elsevier, 2022)
      A new stochastic weather generator, ClimaSG, is presented and evaluated under a wide range of climates. The model requires monthly means data as inputs to generate daily weather data. Validation tests revealed that ClimaSG ...
    • Modelling the impacts of cover crop management strategies on the water use, carbon exchange and yield of olive orchards 

      López Bernal, Álvaro; García Tejera, Omar; Testi, Luca; Villalobos, Francisco J. (Springer, 2022)
      Cover crops have long been proposed as an alternative soil management for minimizing erosion rates in olive stands while providing additional ecosystem services. However, the trade-off between these benefits and the ...