Agricultural Water Management

1976 - 2026

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Volume 328, issue C, 2026

Integrated analysis of key parameters in the design of a gravity-fed subsurface drip irrigation system under low pressure for predominantly sandy soil

Eric Kakanda Tshitende, Pierre M. Kabuya, Paul Malumba and Joost Wellens

AquaLeach approach: Field-scale irrigation assessment using satellite-derived products while accounting for salinity leaching fraction in arid and semi-arid irrigation schemes of Kenya

Sara Esperanza Matendo, Jacopo Dari, Alessia Flammini, Luca Brocca and Raúl Sánchez-Calvo

Optimizing drip fertigation timing enhance nitrogen use efficiency and cotton yield and quality under nitrogen reduction

Yuexuan Xu, Zhenan Hou, Cuncang Jiang, Xiwang Zhao, Zhibo Zhong, Ning Lv and Feihu Yin

Production potential and water productivity of oilseed rape in Egypt – Insights from a multi-environment simulation study using the CROPGRO model

Ahmed M.S. Kheir, Kai Oliver Bergmüller, Ashifur Rahman Shawon, Emir Memic, Dima Sabboura, Kenneth Jay Boote, Osama Ali, El Sayed El Habbasha and Til Feike

Tree strips reduce atmospheric evaporative demand and influence crop water use efficiency in crop alleys of a temperate alley cropping system

Marie Majaura, Rahel Sutterlütti and Christian Böhm

How can a multi-dimensional Copula framework reveal the intensity of compound droughts?

Zengkun Guo, Yang Yu, Lingxiao Sun, Chunlan Li, Jing He, Mingjie Chen, Yuting Gao, Jianming Deng and Ruide Yu

Shallow buried drip irrigation with water regulation enhances maize yield, water productivity, and partial factor productivity of nitrogen fertilizer

Yongqi Liu, Guanghua Yin, Weishu Wang, Ningning Ma, Hang Li, Jian Gu and Shijun Sun

Uncertainty-aware irrigation scheduling based on probabilistic site-specific soil moisture predictions with SWIM2: A case study in Flanders

Marit G.A. Hendrickx, Pieter Janssens, Jan Vanderborght, Evi Matthyssen, Anne Waverijn, Sander Bombeke and Jan Diels

Patterns of climate and soil for deficit irrigation of winter wheat in the northern part of China

Hongle Fang, Guangsheng Zhou, Li Zhou and Xingyang Song

Integrating drought indices and machine learning approaches to predict rainfed potato yield in North China

Yang Li, Jing Wang, Peijuan Wang, Dianchen Han, Renwei Chen, Huiqing Bai, Yuanda Zhang and Hong Yin

Greenhouse gas emissions and water-carbon cost-adjusted yield of drought-tolerant rice under varying irrigation amounts in the Jianghan Plain of China

Qisen Zhang, Jingwei Wu, Yanchao Zhao and Jing Wang

Integrating optimized irrigation with soybean-wheat system for sustainable winter wheat production and environmental sustainability

Yanli Wang, Yuming Li, Yibo Qiao, Yaying Li, Jia You, Pengnian Wu and Tongchao Wang

Hydrodynamic evaluation of paddy field dams for flood mitigation using the SWMM model

Cheng-Wei Yu, Sin-Syuan Shih and Won-Ho Nam

Phosphorus transport under different irrigation modes and urea application regimes in rice-duckweed systems

Xuyao Chen, Huanhao Han, Haili Zheng, Xiaogang Liu and Jianian Li

Stage-dependent response of maize grain formation to shading, waterlogging, and their combination: Insights from floret differentiation and floret setting

Qinghao Wang, Ningning Yu, Peng Liu, Bin Zhao, Jiwang Zhang and Baizhao Ren

Global sensitivity analysis of crop and soil parameters of CERES-Maize model under different irrigation and fertilization regimes based on the EFAST method

Yu Tian, Cunzhen Pan, Zixuan Guo, Linjuan Du, Ligang Xu, Yunwu Xiong and Guanhua Huang

Sweet corn yield, evapotranspiration, production functions, basal crop coefficients, water productivity and soil-water extraction

Suat Irmak

Simulating mediterranean rice paddies’ water balance under climate change scenarios

Ricardo Sorando, Seonggyu Park, Jaehak Jeong, Carles Sanchis-Ibor and Francisco A. Comín

Cadmium and arsenic accumulation potential of ratoon rice under different water managements

Xuefei Yin, Saihua Liu, Rui Huang, Jie Chen, Wei Wei and Xionghui Ji

Evaluation of agro-hydrological subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts for tactical decision making in crop irrigation

Elahe Fallah-Mehdipour and Jörg Dietrich

Optimizing drip irrigation and organic fertilizer management across diverse environments: Global patterns of nitrogen-driven production efficiency

Xing Fan, Yuanpeng Zhu, Yan Jia, Peishen Du, Weini Wang, Junmei Liu, Zhijun Lv, Ronghao Liu and Xiaobin Li

Cross-regional estimation of leaf chlorophyll and soil moisture content in drip-irrigated citrus orchards using UAV data and transfer learning

Quanshan Liu, Mingjun Wang, Ningbo Cui, Shunsheng Zheng, Zongjun Wu, Shouzheng Jiang, Zhihui Wang, Daozhi Gong, Lu Zhao, Liwen Xing and Guoyu Zhu

Soil profile thickness governs water use strategies in riparian jujube trees

Luanzi Sun, Shuang Liang, Kun Zhou, Jiacun Guo and Shipeng Liu

Irrigated agriculture in the United States: Current status and future frontiers

Ivo Zution Gonçalves, Christopher M. U. Neale, Thais Murias Jardim, Regiane de Carvalho Bispo, Randall Ritzema and Renata Rimšaitė

Does irrigation modernization enhance drought performance? Evidence from a qualitative comparative analysis

Patrick Hoffmann and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas

Trends and drivers of ecosystem water use efficiency and carbon uptake modeled across South Asia

Arijit Chakraborty, Manabendra Saharia, Sumedha Chakma and Sujay V. Kumar

The effects of variety and seeding rate on water and fertilizer requirements of winter wheat

Limei Xiao, Weixia Zhao, Zhijie Shan, Wenjie Zhang and Jiusheng Li

A robust regional soil moisture estimation method based on spatiotemporal two-stage data-driven models

Youtian Zhang, Hao Dong, Yakun Wang, Xiaotao Hu, Shikun Sun and Yifei Yao

Data-driven attribution of evapotranspiration dynamics in the Heihe River Basin: Controlling factors from site measurements to regional satellite observations

Ziqi Lin, Yu Feng, Jie Wu, Daozhi Gong, Jinran Xiong, Xinde Cao and Chunmiao Zheng

Effects of the competing controlling factors of rainfall, landscape position and soil depth on moisture responses in the Mollisol region of China

Tong Zhou, Yanru Wen, Litao Lin, Bao Liu, Yueling Zhang, Yaji Wang and Wenbin Wu

Root zone adaptive irrigation technology: A novel subsurface irrigation method using for drought-resistant afforestation in water shortage regions

Xufei Liu, Shoujun Wu, Pute Wu, Lin Zhang, Ergashev Iftixor Sultonovich, Maosheng Ge, Sen Zhai, Lijie Liu and Mengxue Han

Water resources and sustainable rice farming in Asia: Assessing the role of renewable energy

Xiaoping Tang, Qiong Wang, Rui Zhang, Asad Amin and Abbas Ali Chandio

Interrelated impacts of water recirculation on soil physicochemical characteristics and bacterial co-occurrence networks: Consequences for yield sustainability in rice-crab systems

Cheng Xu, Junlin Dong, Xiaocong Qiu, Hongfei Hou, Cheng Ni, Chuyou Wang, Kai Wang, Zeyu Wei and Qiangqiang Yang

Enhancing crop yield and resource use efficiency through ridge tillage: A global meta-analysis across climatic and soil gradients

Xianling Wang, Dongli Shao, Qin Li, Mengqian Si, Jie Kuai, Bo Wang, Jing Wang, Zhenghua Xu, Jie Zhao, Shuijin Hua and Guangsheng Zhou

Differential response of soil moisture in surface and root zones to climate and land use changes

Yukun Tian, Xudong Peng, Longmei Wei, Zhuyu Zhang and Quanhou Dai

A review of catchment rehydration interventions and development of a decision-support framework for managing leaky landscapes

Udara Piyathilake, Emily K. Armstrong, Aydin Enez, Joel Fitzgerald and Rebecca E. Lester

Predicting water and fertilizer losses: A machine learning approach for center pivot fertigation management

Wentao Wang, Ling Zhu, Feng Ma, Jingjing Wang, Xin Hui and Haijun Yan

Field-scale evaluation of OpenET for quantifying consumptive water savings under deficit irrigation in alfalfa

Aliasghar Montazar, John W. Shields, Andre Daccache, Mekonnen Gebremichael and Daniel H. Putnam

From data fusion to ecosystem response: Evaluating merged precipitation products for multi-threshold meteorological drought monitoring and vegetation impact

Shuai Cheng, Weiguang Wang, Mingzhu Cao, Jiazhong Zheng, Jianyu Fu, Haiyang Qian, Xiaolong Pan, Liyan Yang and Jiaxin Tang

Antibiotic residues in reclaimed wastewater irrigation: Implications for nitrogen metabolism and microbial ecology in rice paddy soils

Qing Yan, Jie Li, Youning Ma, Xiaolong Zheng, Xiaoyan Lin, Zhaoyun Cao and Guozhong Feng

Volume 327, issue C, 2026

Quantifying resilience of major field crops to waterlogging during vegetative and reproductive stages

Bikash Adhikari, Lekshmy V. Sankarapillai, Jagmandeep Dhillon, Krishna N. Reddy, K. Raja Reddy and Raju Bheemanahalli

Modeling evapotranspiration from rice paddies with variable water depths

Jing Wang, Jingwei Wu, Yao Xiao, Yanchao Zhao, Qisen Zhang, Dingguo Jiang and Zhiwu Liu

Irrigation-induced changes in rhizosphere and bulk soil properties shape microbial communities and functions in a winter wheat–summer maize system

Yufan Lin, Xiaolin Yang, Tiegui Nan, Taisheng Du, Shaozhong Kang, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl and Kadambot H.M. Siddique

Using hedgerow-grass ditch systems in controlling nitrogen and phosphorus losses in citrus orchards under varying rainfall

Xinmei Zhao, Tianyang Li, Hongye Zhu, Chi Wang, Hui Yan, Lan Song, Yonghao Li, Cheng Zeng and Binghui He

Impacts of land use patterns on seasonal water quality across spatial scales and river grades in the large-scale Yellow River Basin

Yongge Zang, Hong Yu, Yameng Li, Huihui Liu and Jiajun Fu

Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of artificial water replenishment in chinese crop rotation systems over two decades

Zihua Liu, Jiaqi Yao, Lijun Lu, Min Chen, Xinhui Ji, Xuan Wang, Xiangyu Li and Yongqiang Cao

Photosynthetic traits and canopy-level thermal imaging to assess plant-water relations in two apple cultivars under waterlogging and recovery conditions

Narayan Bhusal, Louis Santiago, Byeong-Ho Choi, In Hee Park, Sanghak Jeong, Su-Gon Han and Tae-Myung Yoon

Predictive drivers and transferability of multi-scale machine learning based crop yield prediction under drought across European and Asian climates

Hempushpa Sahu, Pradeep Kumar Garg, Saurabh Vijay and Antara Dasgupta

Multivariate and correlation analysis of cadmium contamination in the food chain across spatio-temporal scales

Hamid Raza, Mukkram Ali Tahir, Noor Us Sabah, Rabia Iftikhar, Muhammad Rashid, Abdulrahman A. Alatar and Mohammad Faisal

Comprehensive insights into integrated rice-based co-culture systems in the top five rice-producing countries enhancing productivity and smallholder livelihoods

Juli Enita Sinaga, Debora D.M. Ambarita, Betty Natalie Fitriatin and Tualar Simarmata

Seed mixture of oat and common vetch improved yields and water productivity by belowground root niche complementarity

Qianhu Ma, Yuying Shen and Zikui Wang

Inventories of toxic elements in soil-rice systems in the main rice cultivated regions in China

Xinyu Cai, Zhengjia He, Yiru Zhao, Kehan Wang, Hui Li, Lijin Guo, Anni Wei and Songliang Wang

Advancing hydrological modeling in the Mediterranean: Multi-objective calibration of the SWAT+ model using open-source data and tools

Mohammed Mouad Mliyeh, Mourad Aqnouy, Ismail Bouizrou, Marouane Laaraj, Aqil Tariq, Mahmoud Zemzami, Lahcen Benaabidate and Hesham El-Askary

Detecting water in agricultural landscapes from remote sensing imagery: Methodological choices, sensor constraints and performance metrics

D.A. Merchán, J.M. Manzano and C. Ierardi

Investment trends and evaluation gaps in rainwater harvesting in Sub-Saharan African drylands

Kunwar K. Singh, Maxwell Kleinhans, Katherine Markham, Foster Mensah, Ariel BenYishay and Julius Adewopo

A novel 3D hazard assessment framework for dry-to-wet abrupt alternation events and its application in the Yangtze River Basin, China

Zhanrui Huang, Zhihua Pan, Xiao Chen, Na Huang, Riping Gao, Jingyu Men, Pengshuai Bi, Changlin Wu, Fangxiao Zhang, Yijia Yao and Enze Gao

Doubling gains, halting losses: Subsurface drip irrigation reshapes wheat-maize system sustainability

Md Razzab Ali, Yucui Zhang, Gong Cheng, Fan Liu, Hongjun Li, Huaihui Li, Xiaojun Dou, Wei Yang and Yanjun Shen

Impact of spatial optimization scale on crop planting patterns and outcomes: A case study of the Hetao Irrigation District

Bing Yu, Dongyang Ren, Jiaye Li and Songhao Shang

Controlled irrigation and straw-decomposing microbial inoculant mitigate CH4 emissions and increase rice yield in straw return mollisols of paddy fields

Sicheng Du, Peng Chen, Guangzhi Lin, Zhongxue Zhang, Jian Song, Sheng Guan, Yu Han, Mingxu Deng, Ming Liu, Zhijuan Qi, Guangbin Zhang and Xiaoyuan Yan

Construction and optimization of a stage-specific variable-parameter surface electromagnetic scattering model for winter wheat

Daowei Wang, Pei Cao and Wenting Han

Field-scale root-zone soil moisture mapping in sandy soils with L-band radiometry and hybrid radiative transfer – machine learning modeling

Nikhil Raj Deep, Ebrahim Babaeian, Lakesh Sharma, Sabine Grunwald and Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

Can soil moisture and nutrient monitoring tools contribute to climate-smart smallholder irrigation? A modelling approach in Zimbabwe

Martin Moyo, Folorunso M. Akinseye, Andre van Rooyen, Henning Bjornlund, Karen Parry, Jamie Pittock, Peter Ramshaw, Angeline Mujeyi, Thabani Dube and Farayi Dube

Sustainability assessment of plastic mulching for wheat production in dry semi-humid areas: An integrated DNDC-machine learning approach

Xiaoli Liu, Xiaoqun Yan, Wenchao Zhen and Yandong Wang

Daily-scale gridded analysis of spatiotemporal characteristics in agricultural drought events across winter wheat growth stages in the Huang–Huai–Hai Plain, China

Yunqian Wang, Baofu Li, Min Luo, Hao Guo, Xiangchen Meng and Zhaodan Cao

Melatonin-mediated mitigation of waterlogging stress in waxy maize: A time-dependent regulation of root architecture, dry matter partitioning and yield

Yanyan Zhang, Jianing Lv, Chao Huang, Xuchen Liu, Haijia Zhou, Ying Li and Zhandong Liu

Simulation the effects of water resource regulation from the perspective of the water-energy-food-ecology nexus: A case study of Yulin city

Jiaqi Sun, Xiaojun Wang, Jianyun Zhang, Xu Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Pengfei Bai, Bo Bi, Congjian Sun, Dazhi Li and Lei Wu

System design shapes resource use efficiency and yield trade-offs in lettuce-freshwater prawn aquaponics

Seunghyun Choi, Chungkeun Lee, Joshua T. Harvey, Asmita Nagila and Daniel I. Leskovar

Optimizing deficit irrigation and fertilization at growth stages to improve citrus yield, fruit quality, and water-fertilizer productivity in semi-arid Southwest China

Fei Chen, Shunsheng Zheng, Ningbo Cui, Zhihui Wang, Shouzheng Jiang, Mingdong Tan, Hongping Li, Lu Zhao and Chunwei Liu

A dynamic water-energy-food-carbon nexus to reveal synergies, trade-offs, and pathways for dryland sustainability

Feifei Han, Hongbo Ling, Aihua Long, Jingshan Yu, Junjie Yan, Shengzhi Huang, Aijun Guo, Bin Guo and Mingjiang Deng

Spatial-temporal patterns of wheat growth model parameter sensitivity and strategies for region-adaptive calibration and management

Xinlong Li, Zhiduo Dong, Jia Gao, Boyue Zhang, Fengli Jiao, Panpan Guo, Shichao Chen, Taisheng Du, Shaozhong Kang and Risheng Ding

Regulated deficit irrigation based on plant water status and Agrivoltaic systems as possible improvements on water resources management in tomato

Carlota Bernal-Basurco, Marta Sánchez-Piñero, Ana Centeno, María José Martín-Palomo, Esther Hernández-Montes, Pedro Castro-Valdecantos, Ruben Moratiel, Jesús D. Peco, Alfonso Moriana, David Pérez-López and Mireia Corell

Daily estimation of Water–Salt–Carbon coordination in high-standard cotton fields using uav and PlanetScope satellite image fusion

Jinming Zhang, Jianli Ding, Jiangtao Li, Zihan Zhang, Jinjie Wang and Xiangyu Ge

Multidimensional sustainability assessment of rice cultivation systems in cold regions: Trade-offs and synergies among water, carbon, energy, and economic footprints

Dongsheng Gai, Boting Shi, Haipeng Li, Yueyue Liu, Xiwen Shao, Yanqiu Geng, Liying Guo and Qiang Zhang

Integrating biophysical models and remote sensing to evaluate irrigation practices in four global hubs

Nikolas Galli, Francesco Capone, Jacopo Dari, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Maria Cristina Rulli, Clément Abergel, Carla Saltalippi, Renato Morbidelli and Luca Brocca

The effect of project selection strategy on irrigation-system upgrade program cost: The cost of not quantifying conservation

Dylan R. Harp, Eleanor A. Bash, Anthony S. Orlando, Tim Wigington and David Primozich

Bacillus subtilis enhances the drought resistance of plants through the aggregation of rhizosphere microbiota mediated by root exudates

Peiqi Ren, Beibei Zhou, Yanpeng Bi, Xiaopeng Chen and Shaoxiong Yao

Attribution of runoff changes in the semi-arid Xiliao River Basin – A Budyko-elasticity approach to deconstructing compound climate and human impacts

Xiangzhao Yan, Yanwei Zhao, Xiong Zhou, Weiqi Xiang, Yongpeng Chen and Jiaqi Chen

Spatio-temporal inversion of saline-alkali land in the oasis and desert region of the Hexi Corridor by fusing measured and remote sensing spectra

Lei Zhang, Xia Jia, Yonghua Zhao, Qi Mu, Lishan Shan and Chengwu Chai

Optimization of water and fertilizer management for apple (Malus pumila mill.) in the sandy regions of southern Xinjiang under organic fertilizer based on entropy weight-TOPSIS comprehensive evaluation

Xiaoxian Duan, Quanjiu Wang, Weiyi Mu, Lijun Su, Changkun Ma and Yan Sun

Salt content retrieval in on leaf texture and color using machine learning-driven

Bo Gao, Lishu Wang, Shuai He, Long Wang and Yanhui Jia

Water-yield relationships for chickpea under different irrigation regimes in Gezira Scheme, Sudan

Maie Kabbashi Alla Jabow, Mahasin Ali Mohamed and Mohie El Din Omar

Saline-alkali soil amelioration in China: A systematic review and evidence synthesis

Qinghui Meng, Congzhi Zhang, Jinhua Zhao, Jiabao Zhang, Yunxuan Lu and Fenwu Liu