Agricultural Water Management

1976 - 2026

Current editor(s): B.E. Clothier, W. Dierickx, J. Oster and D. Wichelns

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Volume 329, issue C, 2026

Optimized nitrogen management improves winter wheat yield and water-nitrogen-use efficiency by enhancing water absorption and nitrogen transport after anthesis: A 4-year field study in the North China Plain

Chuanliang Li, Yu Shi, Juan Zhang, Zhenwen Yu, Yongli Zhang and Zhen Zhang

Machine learning prediction and driver analysis of nitrate leaching in field and vegetable cropping systems of Northwest China

Caixia Hu, Tingting Zhao, Jie Li, Lan Luo, Wenxin Dong, Yan Xu, Houyu Li and Guilong Zhang

Shortening farmers' waiting time to adopt water-saving irrigation: The role of Water User Associations in arid Xinjiang, China

Chunyan Tian, Jiayi Zhang, Liuyang Yao and Kaiyu Lyu

Climate change impacts on soybean net irrigation requirements in Maryland: Regional contrasts between Peninsula and Mainland (2006–2100)

Iolanda Borzì and Hemendra Kumar

An IoT-based predictive irrigation scheduling framework for precision soil moisture control in greenhouses

Xujun Ye, Natsumi Shirakawa, Kaisyu Sano and Shuhuai Zhang

Dynamic water allocation for greenhouse cucumber in warming climates: Quantifying CO2-temperature synergies through multifactorial evaluation

Rongcheng Du, Tianjiao Wang, Zepeng Zhang, Yinxi Guo, Sihan Xu, Rui Li, Qingfang Han and Zhi Zhang

Comparing 1-km Sentinel-1 surface soil moisture with coarser-resolution satellite data for agricultural drought monitoring in Mediterranean regions

Emna Ayari, Mehrez Zribi, Nemesio J. Rodríguez-Fernández, Clement Albergel, Nadia Ouaadi, Pietro Stradiotti and Nicolas Baghdadi

Revegetation enhances soil infiltrability by regulating soil property and root systems: Topsoil exhibits higher sensitivity than subsoil

Li Luo, Wenzhao Guo, Jie Zhu, Chengyang Li, Jiaxin Li and Maizhe Wang

Climate warming accelerates maize phenology and reduces water requirements and yields in south-eastern Kazakhstan

Baktybek Duisebek, Maria Shahgedanova, Andrew J. Wade, Ragab Ragab, Zarina Saidaliyeva and Nikolay Kasatkin

Leaf thermal infrared imaging and lightweight deep learning enable early detection of water stress in watermelon for precision irrigation

Qi Yang, Dongqing Lao, Yufei Wu, Chong Liu, Zipeng Zhang, Zhihao Li, Tianhao Zhao, Paramasivan Balasubramanian and Fayong Li

Drip irrigation with mulching maintains high maize productivity with lower water consumption in arid and semi-arid regions of China

Cheng Li, Mengtian Li, Jingui Wang, Lihua Liu, Renyou Zhang, Yiteng Wang, Xiang Li, Hao Feng, Yunxin Zhang, Lishu Wang and Wenxin Zhang

Deficit drip irrigation enhances the comprehensive performance of late-maturing mandarin by improving fruit quality in southwest China: A multi-perspective evaluation

Shunsheng Zheng, Ningbo Cui, Quanshan Liu, Zongjun Wu, Daozhi Gong, Zhihui Wang, Guoyu Zhu and Shouzheng Jiang

Optimal design and operating strategies of drip fertigation systems: Toward more uniform irrigation, enhanced fertilization efficiency, and higher crop yield

Chunye Liu, Wene Wang, Xiaotao Hu, Wanying Wu, Haitao Mao and Xiaoju Wang

Soil health under drip irrigation: The role of nanobubble-induced soil aeration in biogeochemical processes — A review

Abdul Rahim Junejo, Jinrui Liu, Shahzad Hussain Dahri, Madan Lal Kolhi, Washu Dev and Hao Li

Road-river synergies driving irrigation expansion in the Mu Us desert, China (1986–2023)

Zhao Jin and Pinglang Kou

Effects of deep tillage and pre-irrigation on soil salinity, water use and performance of cotton in a saline soil

Yibin Xu, Bao Xue, Jingrun Wang, Qiang Meng, Le Dong, Ping Gong, Pengfei Li, Jianshu Dong, Hanji Xia, Hongguang Liu and Qiang Xu

Improving the yield of greenhouse tomato by adjusting the coupling coordination degree of soil–water–root system using a biochar

Xufeng Li, Lijian Zheng and Juanjuan Ma

Cotton yield stability and fiber quality as affected by leaching amounts and drip irrigation types in saline-alkali soils of Xinjiang, China

Qingyang Hu, Hongxia Cao, Zijian He, Haolei Shi, Chen Qi and Shikun Sun

Deep nitrogen application improves wheat yield, agronomic nitrogen use efficiency and water productivity in China: A meta-analysis

Liwei Fei, Yabiao Liu, Fuquan Zheng, Najeeb Ullah, Ying Zhang, Fei Wang and Runqiang Liu

Process-based simulation of the water-food-energy-environment nexus in a photovoltaic and drip irrigation planned agricultural district

Yunlong Li, Dongyang Ren, Bernard Engel, Yaoze Liu, Min Hu, Jiyuan Li and Guanhua Huang

Evaluation and error attribution of evapotranspiration products over the Haihe River Basin: Implications for irrigation scheduling and agricultural water management

Xiang Ju and Shaohui Chen

Water management impacts on the accumulation of potentially toxic elements in rice grain: A meta-analysis

Nawal Taaime, Sigride Vencesla Jenniska Asseko, Daniela R. Carrijo, Luisella Celi, Abhishek Kumar, Maria Martin, Marco Romani, Sarah E. Rothenberg, Angelia L. Seyfferth and Bruce Linquist

Global inequities in irrigation water distribution: A systematic review and meta-analysis of impacts on cropland productivity and environmental sustainability

Seid Hussen Muhie

γ-polyglutamic acid-irrigation coupling strategy to improve soil quality, microbial activity, and cotton yield within arid saline-alkali fields

Mengjie Liu, Jiliang Zheng, Jinzhu Zhang, Feihu Yin, Tehseen Javed, Yue Wen and Zhenhua Wang

Cross-scale estimation of layered soil moisture in arid walnut orchards via hyperspectral feature fusion

Tiancai Chen, Yerhaz Yerzhati, Jianping Bao, Yu Sen, Jihang Hou, Rui Zhang, Jianlaing Zhang, Qiuhao Xia, Xiuhong An and Shiwei Wang

A dual-model framework for irrigation performance diagnostics and water productivity benchmarking in a semi-arid sugarcane scheme

Grivin Chipula, Daniel Sambakunsi, Jonathan T. Chikankheni, Lameck Fiwa, Clifton Kawanga and Patsani Gregory Kumambala

Divergent responses of canopy structure and productivity to drought and their driving mechanisms in northern China’s grasslands

Mengzhen Huang, Ruijie Lu and Yue Zhou

Assessing water resources service value through simulation of a water supply–hydropower generation–ecosystem photosynthesis nexus system

Feng Yue, Dedi Liu, Hanxu Liang and Jiayu Zhang

The effect of some ecological characteristics (climate, soil, water content, and altitude) on the quality and antibacterial activity of Stachys inflata Benth. essential oil based on the indigenous knowledge of Iranian people

Elham Ghaemi Kashani and Mansureh Ghavam

A review of integrated crop growth and hydrological models for sustainable agriculture in the midwest: Challenges and opportunities

Fatemeh Pourmansouri, Anuradha Garg, Bryan Runck, David Mulla, Vivek Sharma and Vasudha Sharma

A novel ANN-feature-enhanced nested machine learning method for soil salinity retrieval from Landsat data

Quanqing Feng, Chesheng Zhan, Shi Hu, Zhonghui Lin, Chaoyang Du, Xin Cao, Huimin Meng and Junzhe Zhang

Building irrigation-tailored soil datasets for land suitability assessment in collective irrigation systems

Antónia Ferreira, João Rolim, Tiago B. Ramos and Maria do Rosário Cameira

Stage-specific drought alters stem hormones and non-structural carbohydrate metabolism to sustain the yield of drip-irrigated spring wheat in arid regions

Rongrong Wang, Tianpeng Chen, Haojie Yin, Ziqiang Che, Yiling Ma, Guiying Jiang and Jianguo Liu

Agricultural legacies drive groundwater nitrate contamination: Machine learning and risk-informed monitoring optimization in the Baiyangdian Lake watershed

Zhixiong Zhang, Shiqin Wang, Zilong Zhang, Jingxiong Zhou and Bingxia Liu

Long-term spatiotemporal prediction and changing patterns of salt-affected soils at continental scale using machine learning methods

Yannan Liu, Yingzhi Qian, Yan Zhu, He Li and Kang Wang

High saline drip irrigation significantly suppresses soil CO2 flux and its underlying mechanisms in an extreme arid desert shelterbelt

Le Dong, Wenqian Chang, Jianguo Zhang, Xiong Li, Jiayu Meng and Jinglong Fan

Soil-plant-environment informed deficit drip irrigation enhances maize yield and resource-use efficiency

Junsheng Lu, Xiaolu Cui, Zhijie Chang, Shicheng Yan, Yue Li, Youzhen Xiang, Junliang Fan, Fucang Zhang, Shikun Sun and Tiantian Hu

Effects of photovoltaic drip irrigation system on kiwifruit yield, quality and environmental benefits in seasonal arid regions of Southwest China

Yuxuan Zha, Ningbo Cui, Shouzheng Jiang, Zhihui Wang, Dahua Tang, Shunsheng Zheng, Lu Zhao, Liwen Xing, Guoyu Zhu and Qingyan He

Layered basal phosphorus application combined with drip fertigation enhances cotton water productivity and yield by optimizing soil phosphorus distribution

Zheng He, Minghua Li, Yan Chen, Xuwei Dang, Fuyu Ma and Yang Liu

Estimation of multi-layer soil moisture in agricultural irrigation areas based on a feature-level integrated LSTM-XGBoost model

Di Wang, Shenhan Xu, Chenglong Zhang, Minghong Chen, Junwei Tan, Haitao Su, Hongwei Xu, Shuai Lou, Wei Sun and Zailin Huo

The contribution of litter and soil to water conservation capacity as affected by land use change and stand age in Carya cathayensis plantations

Lei Sun, Yun Zhu, Shouhao Zhang, Abdul Hakim Jamshidi, Xia Liu, Yi Lu and Na Jin

When floods heal or harm after drought: Three archetypes of maize photosynthetic response to drought‑to‑flood transitions across China

Peng Li, Sen Chen, Liang He, Ning Yao, Chao Wang, Meichen Feng, Xingyu Hao, Jianqiang He and Qiang Yu

Effect of increasing conceptual model detail on simulated crop yield-drainage base relations

J.M. van den Brink, J.C. Van Dam, H.M. Mulder, C.J. Ritsema and R.P. Bartholomeus

Water use in Spanish agriculture (2001–2019): Trends and impacts of irrigation intensification

Gabriel Arbonès, Oleksandr Mialyk, Lucia De Stefano and Alberto Garrido

A unified SIF-based framework integrating daytime and nighttime transpiration for irrigated maize in semi-arid regions

Lingxin Bu, Mengting Qin, Jialin Qian, Mengyang Zhao, Chuansong Zhang, Bo Zhao, Yuhang Song and Kepeng Feng

Synergistic effects of returning organic materials on crop yield, water and nitrogen use efficiency: A global meta-analysis

Yufeng Lv, Liqun Bao, Miaolin Ji, Yanan Jiao, Xufang Wang, Xiangyang Wang, Guangxin Zhang and Yuncheng Liao

Modeling of infiltration dynamics using HYDRUS-1D: Optimizing micro-sprinkler selection for reduced groundwater contamination risk in strawberry production in Florida, USA

Josue St Fort, Davie M. Kadyampakeni, Vivek Sharma, Michael Dukes, Shinsuke Agehara and Carlene A. Chase

Detecting the spatiotemporal evolution, mutation characteristics and dominant drivers of vegetation drought in the Yangtze River Basin, China

Fei Wang, Qian Xu, Hexin Lai, Mengting Du, Ruyi Men, Rong Li, Ruirui Qi, Haoyu Li, Kai Feng, Yanbin Li, Qingqing Tian, Shengzhi Huang, Yan Li and Haibo Yang

Synergistic enhancement of cotton yield and water–nitrogen use efficiency in saline–alkali soils through optimized water–nitrogen timing under mulched drip irrigation

Ruiyun Yao, Fuhai Ye, Hongguang Liu, Yan Chen, Yibin Xu and Jingrun Wang

A soil moisture prediction method for mixed soils under multiple measurement conditions

Yuteng Liu, Jiawei Xu, Jing Yuan and Changxiang Yan

Soil salinity-constrained evolution of cropping structure under climate change and water-saving strategies in an arid irrigation district

Weishu Wang, Yao Rong, Haitao Su, Hongwei Xu, Chenglong Zhang, Chaozi Wang and Zailin Huo

Irrigated-area expansion offsets agricultural water-saving benefits in an arid region: A case study of the Ebinur Lake Basin, China

Jing Liu, Qiang An, Mingjiang Deng, Zhenliang Yin, Qing Luo, Rui Sun and Aihua Long

Optimizing irrigation thresholds for water conservation and yield stabilization of maize under varying salinity conditions in Northwest China

Qi Liao, Risheng Ding, Taisheng Du, Shaozhong Kang, Minggang Xu, Ling Tong, Shaoyu Gao, Shujie Gu and Yupeng Li

Advancements and challenges of micro/nanobubble technology for sustainable agriculture: A systematic and bibliometric review

A. Balea, G. Nieto, F. Hadinejad, E. Fuente, J.L. Sanchez-Salvador, M.C. Monte, C. Negro and A. Blanco