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Welcome to the BioLuc wiki! (WORK IN PROGRESS)

I. Overview

II. Additional User Guide

A. Please look at general model user guidance documents located :

B. Prioritization of Land Use

C. Variables Model Developers have Found Useful for Testing and Analysis

AP commodity consn

AP food consn

AP net export

AP production

Abandoned

Abandoned Land

Actual Forage Land

Animal Product Inventory

Avg AP Prodn Shortfall

Avg Commodity Prod''n Shortfall

Built Up

Built Up Land

Commodity Inventory

Crop

Crop Land

Crop Land Alloc to Cellulosic Energy Crop

Crop Land Alloc to Fallow

Crop Land Alloc to Fiber

Crop Land Alloc to Other

Crop Land Alloc to VFN

Latent

Latent Land

NPL

Near Pristine Land

Other yield

Population

Set Aside

Set Aside Land

TOTAL desired AP exports

TOTAL desired AP imports

TOTAL desired CP exports

TOTAL desired CP imports

Total AP Prodn Shortfall

VFN yield

animal product demand

commodity crop demand

commodity crop yield

commodity production

crop land forage yield

direct commodity consn

fiber yield

net commodity export

per capita animal product demand

per capita commodity crop demand

potential exports

potential imports

total crop land allocated to all other uses

total crop land allocated to commodities

III. Known Model Issues

A. Stella Mouse

It is possible using STELLA 10.0.3 to lose control over the mouse when opening the BioLUC model. This can occur under conditions such as the following a) you have multiple monitors b) program such as the windows task manager is open in one monitor b) you launch the model by double-clicking it. This is a known problem with STELLA, and is scheduled to be fixed in a version subsequent to 10.0.3. This problem does not occur if you first launch STELLA and then open the BioLUC model from the File menu.

IV. Known Data Issues

A. inconsistency between population and commodity crop demand

demand for seed, etc comes from disposition and is independent of population. a bit weird. we need to flag this in documentation

B. latent to set aside

The "latent to set aside" and "pristine to set aside" flows are set to zero. If this is intentional, then the documentation should note that these flows are turned off by default and meant to be overridden when users design scenarios.

C. "Built-Up Land"

D. Zero Yields

V. FAQ

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