plant.ini

This file stores information about the plants growing in a plant community.

A plant community can consist of plants growing at the same time or plants growing in rotation.

The structure of the file plant.ini is different than that of most other SWAT+ input files. The first line for each plant community specifies how many plants there are in the community and what the initial year of the rotation is. It is followed by one line per plant in the community.

Field	Description	Type	Unit	Default	Range
name	Plant community name	string	n/a	n/a	n/a
plnt_cnt	Number of plants in the community	integer	n/a
rot_yr_ini	Initial rotation year	integer	n/a
plnt_name	Plant name as in plant database	string	n/a		n/a
lc_status	Land cover status at start of simulation	string	n/a		n/a
lai_init	Initial Leaf Area Index	real	m^2/m^2	0.0	0.0-8.0
bm_init	Initial plant biomass	real	kg/ha	0.0	0.0-1000.0
phu_init	Initial fraction of plant heat units accumulated	real	fraction	0.0	0.0-100.0
plnt_pop	Plant population	real	n/a	0.0
yrs_init	Age of plant at start of simulation	real	years	0.0
rsd_init	Initial residue cover	real	kg/ha	10000.00	0.0-10000.0