{"id":1125,"date":"2021-11-25T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T12:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-soils\/?page_id=1125"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:59:45","slug":"plant-soil-nutrient-cycling-model","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-soils\/plant-soil-nutrient-cycling-model\/","title":{"rendered":"N14CP Plant-Soil Nutrient Cycling Model"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The N14CP model is a process-based representation of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in plants and soils. It simulates the interconnected movement of these nutrients from atmosphere to plants to soils and to waterways for a wide range of typical natural and agricultural ecosystems with mineral soils in boreal and temperate regions.<\/p>

It is driven by climate data, nutrient inputs from human activities and from the atmosphere, geology, and land use and management.\u00a0<\/p>

It simulates processes such as plant growth, plant litter production, decomposition, immobilisation, denitrification, and weathering.<\/p>

It produces estimates of:<\/p>