Agricultural Water Management

1976 - 2026

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Volume 332, issue C, 2026

Soil moisture retrieval model from satellite remote sensing under vegetation cover based on coupled radiative transfer and ensemble learning

Ruiqi Li, Zhitao Zhang, Lu Liu, Shengqi Tian, Xuqian Bai, Long Qian, Shuailong Fan, Tianjin Dai, Sumeng Ye, Zilong Li and Junying Chen

From belief to behavior: An exploratory analysis of adaptive behavior to water scarcity, irrigation technology choice, and water productivity in Morocco

Abzetta Sana, Tarik Chfadi and Rachida El Mansoum

Excess nitrogen may decrease maize grain yields when water is limited

Tyler C. Donovan, Louise H. Comas, Joel Schneekloth, Leonardo Deiss and Meagan Schipanski

Quality in forage crops under drought and salinity stresses: Responses, simulation and field managements

Yanzhe Hu, Jintao Wang, Xinliang Dong, Teng Li, Xiaojing Liu, Hongyong Sun and Marcos Lana

Country-base analyses of agriculture water consumption in the Tigris-Euphrates basin using modified SWAT model and water accounting plus framework

Majid Delavar, Vahid Shokri Kuchak, Saeed Morid, Mohammad Reza Zaghiyan and Fariba Babbaeian

Enhancing the sustainability and stability of farmland water-food-ecology system through adaptive management under human activities and climate change in arid regions

Yue Li, Zhijun Chen, Min Hu, Dongyang Ren, Xu Xu, Yunwu Xiong, Quanzhong Huang and Guanhua Huang

Freshwater infiltration model and infiltration characteristics simulation in saline soil considering solute potential

Yu Liu, Ye Liu, Jinjia Lian, Tingting Huang, Yufan Sun, Weibo Nie, Zilong Guan, Lei Wu and Xiaoyi Ma

Salt-tolerant barley ideotypes for hot arid zones: Genotypic versus salinity effects on yield, grain quality and physiological traits

Ayesha Rukhsar, Eider Zearreta Urien, Osama Kanbar, Henda Mahmoudi, Salima Yousfi, José L. Araus and Maria D. Serret

Identifying spatiotemporal patterns and driving factors of nitrogen leaching in Henan Province by integrating a process-based model with machine learning

Shaoqing Chen, Puyu Feng, Fangzheng Chen, Jian Ren, Hao Liang, Yinan Gao and Kelin Hu

Determinants of farmers’ intention to adopt the wetting front detector for irrigation scheduling in Ghana: Insights from an extended technology acceptance model

Kennedy Agyei-Manu and Stijn Speelman

Point source from domestic sewage and nonpoint source from residual nutrients in soil: The dual contributions of nitrogen and phosphorus to river pollution in intensive agricultural watersheds

Qingfei Chen, Wanli Hu, Rongyang Cui, Bin Fu, Hui Yan, Xinmei Zhao, Anqiang Chen and Dan Zhang

Enhancing nitrogen simulations in SWAT for paddy-dominated catchments through improved nitrogen balance module

Meng Xiang, Qianan Yu, Haitao Wu, Yuanlai Cui, Yufeng Luo and Bin Liao

Biochar increased water productivity and grain yield of winter wheat by alleviating post-anthesis drought stress under limited irrigation

Ying Liu, Zhen Gao, Wanshun Li, Yanfei Liu, Teng Fei, Xudong Zhao, Wenchao Zhen and Jianhong Ren

Decoupled water and nitrogen use strategies in apple trees in the loess deposits

Zelin Wang, Furong Zhang, Jiahui Ha and Zhi Li

Combined effects of early defoliation and deficit irrigation on yield components and chemical composition of grapevines 'Albariño′ grown in Galicia (NW Spain)

María Fandiño, Javier J. Cancela, Marta Rodríguez-Febereiro, M. Teresa Teijeiro and Mar Vilanova

Mechanisms and regulatory pathways for increasing water and nitrogen use efficiencies by crop diversification: A review

Wen Yin, Qiang Chai, Falong Hu, Zhilong Fan, Lianhao Zhao, Pingxing Wan, Yunyou Nan, Cai Zhao, Aizhong Yu, Heyu Chen, Mohamed Abdalla and Pete Smith

A dual hydraulic–microbial irrigation toolkit for precision root-zone hydration in date palm

Mughair Abdul Aziz, Shafeeq Rahman, Fatema Naser, Dhuwa Sharif, Ayesha Siddiqui, Reem Alothman, Manzoor Ahmad, Mohammed Alyafei, Bellachheb Chahbani, Fathalla Hamed and Khaled Masmoudi

The sensitivity of shallow-groundwater grasslands to changes in climate and groundwater management

Valeh Khaledi, Ahsan Raza, Franziska Taubert, Michael Berg-Mohnicke, Bahareh Kamali, Ottfried Dietrich, Christoph Merz and Claas Nendel

Sustainable resource governance in China: Mitigates regional inequality and promotes SDGs through virtual water-carbon compensation

Hongwei Huang, Menglong Fan, Li Liu, Qilin Wan, Xinshi Zhang, Shuyu Zhang, Shan Jiang, Yong Zhao, Xining Zhao and Xuerui Gao

Optimized ridge width and nitrogen type enhances grain yield and stability of rain-fed winter wheat by improving resource capture and use efficiency: A five-season study

Shengcai Qiang, Yan Zhang, Hong Zhao, Guangxin Zhang, Min Sun and Junliang Fan

Mitigating emitter clogging in high-sediment water drip irrigation systems through selection of appropriate organic fertilizers

Zeyuan Liu, Lu Xu, Yunlong Bai, Yong Wang, Li Tian, Tiankai Han, Yang Xiao and Lili Zhangzhong

A novel framework for robust seasonal groundwater banking in agricultural regions under deep uncertainty

Nahid Jafari, Najmeh Mahjouri and Elahe Dartomi

Effects of biodegradable film mulch and controlled irrigation on GHG emissions, paddy yield and water productivity

Haihe Gao, Dandan Xu, Sijie Huang, Zhiming Qi, Jixiao Cui, Joann K. Whalen, Qin Liu, Xurong Mei and Changrong Yan

Sustainable agronomic practices on crop straw improve grain yield and soil quality in saline-alkali soil: A meta‑analysis of global literature with a China‑dominant dataset

Teng Li, Jintao Wang, Xinliang Dong, Yanzhe Hu, Kai Guo, Xiaojing Liu and Hongyong Sun

Thirsty fields, green cities: Decoding the water nexus between agriculture and urban ecology in the Yellow River Basin

Zhongwen Xu and Weijin Qian

Harnessing phosphorus fertilizer to counteract warming-driven decline in maize water productivity under climate change

Wei Chen, Hui Ju, Xin-Zhong Liang, William D. Batchelor and Qingquan Chu

Water-fertilizer management combined with Bacillus subtilis enhances cotton productivity in saline-alkali soils in Xinjiang, China

Xiaoguo Mu, Jihong Zhang, Yue Wen, Zhengjiang Feng, Jinzhu Zhang, Tehseen Javed, Dongjie Pei, Feihu Yin and Zhenhua Wang

Scaling laws of irrigation networks in China rice polder communities

Yu Gu, Xun Li and Weipan Xu

Pathways to agricultural water use efficiency in the Yangtze River economic belt: Technological, economic, and institutional perspectives

Liang Yuan, Qiaoyu Li, Juan Cheng, Li Zhong, Zhijie Zhou, Weijun He, Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu and Thomas Stephen Ramsey

Multi-objective optimization of water and nitrogen regimes for enhancing crop productivity, economic return and resource use efficiency of drip-fertigated maize-soybean strip intercropping system in northwest China

Zhenqi Liao, Zhenlin Lai, Hongtai Kou, Hui Zhang, Hao Kong, Yiyao Liu, Zhijun Li, Fucang Zhang, Muhammad Farooq and Junliang Fan

Film mulching improves maize-soybean intercropping productivity by enhancing soil water availability and crop photosynthetic capacity under semi-arid conditions in Northwest China

Jiaxuan Wen, Haolei Zhang, Jinchao Li, Lihong Wu, Hao Quan, Nanping Lin, Benhua Sun, Fuqin Liang, Yu Chen, Hao Feng and Dong, Qin’ge

Investigating crop coefficients and water use patterns of mulched drip-irrigated peanut in northern Xinjiang via the dual crop coefficient methods

Haiming Li, Lei Jiang, Xiaopei Zhang, Xiaojun Shen, Qiang Li, Yuchao Zhang, Junwei Chen, Jianshu Dong, Wenbo Zhang and Hao Liu

Machine learning and SHAP analysis of UAV imagery for irrigation optimization in alfalfa seed production in the arid region of Northwest China

Zhicheng Jia, Fang Wang, Bin Ma, Zhijia Lv, Shiqiang Zhao, Tianqi Zhu, Jianwen Zhang, Liru Dou, Manli Li and Peisheng Mao

Optimizing rotary tillage depth improves soil water–salt dynamics and crop growth in a drip-irrigated saline wasteland

Yibin Xu, Jingrun Wang, Jianshu Dong, Zhijie Li, Changkun Yang, Xiang Qiao, Jiaxin Wang, Le Dong, Ping Gong, Yingsheng Dang, Qiang Meng, Ruiyun Yao, Yuanhang Guo, Hanji Xia, Hongguang Liu, Pengfei Li and Qiang Xu

Long-term growth stage-specific dynamics and environmental drivers of water use efficiency in a wheat–maize rotation agroecosystem: Evidence from a 22-year eddy covariance record in the North China Plain

Ning Wang, Zhipin Ai, Fadong Li, Lexin Ma, Xin Zhao, Dengpan Xiao, Zhenglun Yang, Rashid Mahmood and Kiril Manevski

Deep learning-based classification of waterlogging stress level in rapeseed seedlings using low-cost RGB images

Yishan Ji, Ying Jin, Yu Jin, Haoyan Song, Linxuan Jiang, Feng Jing and Mingquan Ding

Meteorological-to-agricultural drought propagation based on the "Press-Pulse" framework

Kai Feng, Shile Wang, Yingying Wang, Haijiang Wu, Yanbin Li, Shengzhi Huang, Jian Peng, Xiaoling Su, Fei Wang, Jihong Qu and Zezhong Zhang

Improving net carbon balance and irrigation water productivity of subtropical organic double-rice cropping through a near-saturation water-saving management

Cheng-Hsien Lin, Yu-Yu Kung, Sung-Ching Lee, Ching-Wen Wang, Yu-Ren Lin, Jang-An Tai, Li-Yan Lin and Yi-Ting Hsu

Optimizing water and potassium management enhances yield and water-nutrient use efficiency through improved soil nitrogen availability in citrus orchards

Yuxuan Zha, Bin Zhu, Ningbo Cui, Daozhi Gong, Shouzheng Jiang, Zongjun Wu, Shunsheng Zheng, Guoyu Zhu, Xiaoxian Zhang and Zhihui Wang

Irrigation-driven trade-offs between yields and nitrogen losses in global major crop production

Yajie Zhang, Shouliang Huo, Linchao Li, Qiao Xu, Yu Shi and Yuxing Yan

Diagnosing soybean yield gaps under water-limited conditions using a reference gross primary productivity approach

Yuhang Tian, Xuewen Zhou, Kun Xiao, Jingfeng Xiong, Yanqing Zhou, Yu Cao, Xiaoyou Chen, Hanliang Gui and Qinchuan Xin

Simulation of crop–soil coupling characteristics in saline–alkali land based on multi-temporal remote sensing inversion

Xi Chen, Shuqing Yang, Ruimin Liu and Xiaoyu Wen

Optimizing water and nitrogen management for stable and sustainable apple yield and fruit quality on the Loess Plateau

Qiong He, Shuaihong Chen, Zhijie Chang, Tiantian Hu, Shaowu Zhang, Guangzhao Sun, Junsheng Lu and Jie Liu

Impact of an organic fertilizer on emitter clogging in saline water drip irrigation systems: Inhibitory at low salinity but aggravating at high salinity

Zeyuan Liu, Rui Tao, Xunkun Zhang, Yunlong Bai, Yong Wang, Li Tian, Ruiqing Jia, Tiankai Han, Yang Xiao, Ruihong Yu and Peng Hou

Mitigating emitter clogging in drip irrigation systems by optimizing irrigation timing: A comparative study of daytime vs. nighttime irrigation

Zeyuan Liu, Rui Tao, Zhen Sun, Peng Hou, Dabo Lu, Yang Xiao, Rui Xie, Yayu Wang and Ruihong Yu

Real-time water-nitrogen co-regulation improves winter wheat productivity: Insights from field experiments and HYDRUS-3D modeling

Yu Ding, Jianqin Ma, Bifeng Cui, Xiuping Hao, Guangtao Fu, Yungang Bai, Bangxin Ding and Jianghui Zhang

SSP-based multi-objective crop and irrigation allocation for sustainable water management in the Gorganroud watershed, Iran

Abolfazl Deylami, Seyed-Ali Hosseini-Yekani, Peter Zander, Leili Abolhassani, Elnaz Nejatiyanpour and Mahmood Sabouhi Sabouni

Long-term mulching reduces non-productive water use and increases transpiration and water productivity of maize in the semi-arid Loess Plateau

Tingting Xue, Hanqing Yu, Lili Gao, Xinyue Kou, Xiaofeng Wang, Myint Thidar, Xvlun Man, Ye Guo, Lili Mao and Daozhi Gong

High-precision root zone soil moisture inversion for arid cotton fields using UAV-meteorological-physiological multi-source data fusion

Yonglin Gao, Tiebiao Zhao, Jianting Wang, Yaxing Liu, Dongdong Liu and Zhong Zheng

Synergistic regulation of cotton yield and quality formation by magnetoelectric brackish water drip irrigation and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in arid regions

Qingyuan Lei, Jiaming Bai, Wanghai Tao, Haokui Yan, Yangze Huo, Mingjiang Deng, Jiang, Ping’an and Asim Biswas

Assessment of planting date adjustments on irrigation water demand under future climate change scenarios in Taiwan

Amba Shalishe Shanka, Yi-Ying Chen, Shang-Ji Wang, Yi-Shen Peng and Chih-Feng Chiang

Assessment of drought-heatwave and waterlogging-heatwave compound events during summer soybean growth stages in the Sichuan Basin under climate change

Yumei Peng, Huimin Wang, Weiguo Liu, Hao Xu, Yao Zhao, Jun Wei and Xiaopei Tang

Enhancing agricultural sustainability through integrated water management: A telecoupled water-land-food-carbon assessment for China

Lu Peng, Fan Zhang, Xing Tan and Wenhao Xia

Hyperspectral monitoring of winter wheat aboveground biomass and net primary productivity under controlled water-deficit conditions

Zhigang Wang, Yining Li, Hu Zhang, Yani He, Xingxing Qiao, Jin Tong, Meichen Feng, Wude Yang, Chao Wang and Sha Yang

Commentary on Tanga et al. (2025): Experimental design and interpretation of phosphorus concentration responses under controlled drainage

Ehsan Ghane and Ashkan Tehrani

Preferences and willingness to pay for irrigation system improvements among smallholder farmers in Ethiopia: A discrete choice experiment approach

Agerie Nega Wassihun, Yuchun Zhu, Xuemei Zeng, Aklok Getnet, Taye Melese Mekie and B.K.D.J.R. Samarasinghe

A stage-based groundwater-threshold framework for drought-year irrigation management in deep confined aquifers of the North China Plain

Hang Zhou, Chu Wu, Xiao Zhang, Xiong Wu, Yong Zhao, Wenji Yao, Na Li and Ziqi Yan

Climate warming, irrigation-driven dryland-to-paddy conversion, and saline-alkali land dynamics in the northern Songnen Plain, Northeast China

Xiaomin Chang, Xiaoyan Guan, Yuan Tao, Haorui Chen, Songjun Han, Rui He, Jianwei Wu and Lipeng Wu

Soil functional responses and cotton productivity under activated brackish water and nitrogen regimes in arid zones

Xue Zhao, Quanjiu Wang, Yi Guo, Wanghai Tao and Kai Wei

Variability in apple tree fine-root phenology, amount and spatial distribution in response to irrigation and nitrogen application levels under drip fertigation

Shaowu Zhang, Shuaihong Chen, Tiantian Hu, Jia Gao, Ling Tong and Shaozhong Kang

Corrigendum to “Does irrigation modernization enhance drought performance? Evidence from a qualitative comparative analysis” [Agric. Water Manag. 328 (2026) 1–16]

Patrick Hoffmann and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas

Isotope-resolved root water uptake reveals dynamic water partitioning that underpins yield advantage in maize–soybean intercropping

Modsarajah Rajendran, Peng Pan, Buchun Liu, Nan Wu, Zongxin Li, Enke Liu and Xurong Mei

Corrigendum to “Determination of irrigation water use from multiple soil moisture observations at a fine spatial resolution: Preferred model optimization and fusion strategy” [Agric. Water Manag. 326 (2026) 110232]

Qiu-Yu Yan, Shuangxue Zhai, Pei Leng, Chunfeng Ma, Abba Aliyu Kasim, Seokhyeon Kim, Qian-Yu Liao, Tian Ma, Yun-Jing Geng, Shiyuan Fu, Muhannad Adnan Siddique, Yayong Sun, Jianwei Ma and Zhao-Liang Li