Ways of STICS use
Résumé
This chapter will discuss the purposes of STICS uses along with scale variability and coupling possibilities.
Some 328 peer-reviewed papers involving the use of STICS were published from 1998 to 2020 (not counting numerous operational papers and reports) that showed that STICS specifications allowed for a large range of uses. The topics of these papers were analysed according to their abstracts, with a focus on the last decade (Figure 14.1). In 58% of them, STICS use dealt with agronomy and crop and environmental sciences, while statistics and modelling sciences, bioclimatology and soil science also represented a substantial share (32%). STICS applications in microbiology, ecology, animal science and rural economy were less frequent.
