Agricultural Water Management

1976 - 2025

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Volume 313, issue C, 2025

Variance-based sensitivity analysis of climate variability impact on crop yield using machine learning: A case study in Jordan

Yingqiang Xu, Abeer Albalawneh, Maysoon Al-Zoubi and Hiba Baroud

Corrigendum to “Optimized fertilizer management strategy based on ridge–furrow planting pattern enhances dryland wheat yield and water utilization on the Loess Plateau” [Agric. Water Manag. 311 (2025) 109391]

Jun Xing, Guojun Liu, Wenbo Zhai, Tong Gou, Zuoyan Zhou, Ai Hu, Kai Zhang, Dong Bai, Aixia Ren, Zhiqiang Gao and Min Sun

Irrigation combined with organic fertilizer could promote the environmental health of soil available nutrients and improve the functional activity of saponins in Panax Notoginseng

Yunfei Tuo, Chunyan Xie, Shaojun Wang, Ping Xiang, Qiliang Yang and Xiahong He

Circulation water and solute mass balance model for the rice growing area on the right bank of the lower Guadalquivir River valley

Blanca Cuadrado-Alarcón, Luciano Mateos, Sébastien Guéry and Helena Gomez-Macpherson

CornSoyWater, a web application for irrigation decision support on corn and soybean

Chengchou Han, Haishun Yang, Dharmic Payyala, Tiyuan Xia, Jiani Liu, Yongfu Zhang, Lixin Yin, Zhen Ren, Ye Chen, Yuan Su, Liling Mo, Yuyu Zhang, Yu Zhong, Xiaoxu Bi, Jianbin Li and Yong Chen

Irrigation scheduling of an almond orchard using the water balance and remote and proximal sensing

Rafael Orozco-Moran, Jose A. Jimenez-Berni, Elias Fereres and Francisco Orgaz

Mild water deficit during maturity reduces cracking rate of greenhouse muskmelon while improving fruit quality

Qimin Xue, Hao Li and Taisheng Du

Real-time monitoring of soil moisture in cotton fields using electromagnetic induction technology

Yang Gao, Quanze Hu, Jiaojiao Hui, Lin Chang, Mei Zeng and Qingsong Jiang

Assessing seasonal forecast performance to predict crop irrigation requirements to support water management decision-making in the Mediterranean region

Daniel Garcia, João Rolim, Maria do Rosário Cameira, Gilles Belaud, Nicolas R. Dalezios, George Karoutsos, João A. Santos and Paula Paredes

Predicting the risk and trigger thresholds for propagation of meteorological droughts to agricultural droughts in China based on Copula-Bayesian model

Cuiping Yang, Changhong Liu, Xuguang Xing and Xiaoyi Ma

Uptake and profitability of small-scale irrigation in the Sahel: insights from the literature and survey data

Amy Faye and Joachim von Braun

Czech farmers' perspectives on sustainable agriculture and water management: Implications for climate change adaptation

Marek Bednář, Renata Pavelková, Patrik Netopil and Bořivoj Šarapatka

The biophysical and crop yield effects of irrigation and their changes in China’s drylands

Shuangshuang Zi, Yan Li, Jingwen Zhang, Chengcheng Hou, Huiqing Lin, Zhengjie Xu, Shan Sang, Jinwei Dong and Bojie Fu

Optimal cropping patterns and intertemporal groundwater usage under extraction constraints in Oklahoma’s panhandle

Lixia H. Lambert, Yiqing Yao and Lucia R. Levers

Rice cultivation can mitigate soil salinization and alkalization by modifying the macropore structure in saline–sodic paddy fields

Wei Peng, Xiangming Zhu, Wenjuan Zheng, Qingyang Xie, Mingming Wang and Enhua Ran

The coupled model of water delivery and distribution regulation for single-canal pool systems

Ke Zhou, Yu Fan, Zhanyi Gao, Haorui Chen, Xinrong Zheng, Yun Yang and Jie Liu

How do cognitive biases influence farmers' participation in water conservation at Lake Urmia? Insights from social norms theory

Davood Amin Fanak, Rohollah Rezaei and Mukhtar Hashemi

Surface-subsurface modeling of water dynamics in drained and farmed wetlands in the prairie pothole region

Alejandro Gomez, Antonio Arenas and Keith E. Schilling

Social capital and behavioral response to water scarcity: Sustainable agriculture policies pathways for adopting dry direct-seeded rice

Moslem Savari, Mohammadamin Ghezi and Homa Molavi

Hazard assessment of compound drought and heat events on summer maize from agricultural and meteorological perspectives

Qing Li, Peijuan Wang, Yang Li, Junxian Tang, Xin Li, Yuanda Zhang, Dianchen Han, Qi Wang, Yuncheng Zhao and Zaiqiang Yang

Correction of crop water deficit indicators based on time-lag effects for improved farmland water status assessment

Yujin Wang, Zhitao Zhang, Yinwen Chen, Shaoshuai Fan, Haiying Chen, Xuqian Bai, Ning Yang, Zijun Tang, Long Qian, Zhengxuan Mao, Siying Zhang, Junying Chen and Youzhen Xiang

Quantifying evapotranspiration and crop coefficients of California 'Hass' avocado affected by various environmental and plant factors

Aliasghar Montazar, Ben Faber, Dennis Corwin, Alireza Pourreza and Richard L. Snyder

Changes in root growth and water uptake contribute to the yield and water productivity improvement in winter wheat during the past three decades: A case study in the North China Plain

Haotian Li, Na Liu, Liwei Shao, Xiuwei Liu, Hongyong Sun, Suying Chen and Xiying Zhang

Effects of biochar from different pyrolysis temperatures on soil physical properties and hydraulic characteristics in potato farmland of arid and semi-arid regions

Jiawei Guo, Hui Zhou, Liguo Jia, Yongqiang Wang and Mingshou Fan

Relationship of vegetation stand age to soil water dynamics and use in artificial shrublands and grasslands in a semiarid region

Chenggong Liu, Xiaoxu Jia, Lidong Ren, Chunlei Zhao, Xiao Bai and Shao, Ming’an

Quantifying future climate impacts on maize productivity under different irrigation management strategies: A high-resolution spatial analysis in the U.S. Great Plains

Ikenna Onyekwelu, Sam Zipper, Stephen Welch and Vaishali Sharda

Water and heat resource utilization influence cotton yield through sowing date optimization under varied climate

Hamad Khan, Nangial Khan, Zeeshan Khan, Han Yingchun, Yang Beifang, Lei Yaping, Zhi Xiaoyu, Xiong Shiwu, Shang Shilong, Ma Yunzhen, Jiao Yahui, Lin Tao and Yabing Li

Accounting for biomass water equivalent variations in soil moisture retrievals from cosmic ray neutron sensor

Samer K. Al-Mashharawi, Susan C. Steele-Dunne, Marcel M. El Hajj, Martin Schrön, Claude Doussan, Dominique Courault, Trenton E. Franz and Matthew F. McCabe

Modeling soil water and salinity dynamics in mangrove swamp rice production system of Guinea Bissau, West Africa

Gabriel Garbanzo, Maria do Rosário Cameira, Paula Paredes, Marina Temudo and Tiago B. Ramos

Coordination of abscisic acid and hydraulic signals in stomatal closure and yield of soybean genotypes with varying isohydry under different water conditions

Sanwei Yang, Haixia Zhang, Yi Jin, Neil C. Turner, Jiayin Pang, Yinglong Chen and Jin He

Endophytic fungi enhance drought tolerance in Fagopyrum tataricum: Insights into flavonoid biosynthesis and photosynthetic pathways

Yujie Jia, Qiqi Xie, Jiwen Tao, Yixin Chen, Yixuan Qi, Hongying Zhu, Tongliang Bu, Xinyu Zhang, Yirong Xiao, Zhao Chen, Qingfeng Li, Zizhong Tang and Ming Yuan

Assessing sustainable water management in a resource-scarce environment (Ghana, West Africa) via the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Mattas Konstadinos, Georgiou Pantazis, Lazaridou C. Dimitra, Mattas Christos, Nastis A. Stefanos, Seddaiu Giovanna, Kombiok James Mantent, Adjebeng-Danquah Joseph and Ramson Adombilla

Collaborative solutions for agricultural water pollution in smallholder economies: Farmers and local governments unite

Yong Sun, Xiaomin Huang, Buhailiqimu Paerhati and Kan Zhou

Evaluation of the LI-710 evapotranspiration sensor in comparison to full eddy covariance for monitoring energy fluxes in perennial and annual crops

Srinivasa Rao Peddinti and Isaya Kisekka

Adaptation strategies for deficit irrigation management under extreme climate conditions

Kelechi Igwe, Ikenna Onyekwelu and Vaishali Sharda

Volume 312, issue C, 2025

Optimizing subsurface pipe layout by considering leaching efficiency of major salt ions to improve crop coverage using HYDRUS-2D

Yi Liu, Wang Tan, Wenzhi Zeng, Chang Ao and Donglin Jiang

Development of an indicator system for solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence monitoring to enhance early warning of flash drought

Zixuan Qi, Yuchen Ye, Lian Sun, Chaoxia Yuan, Yanpeng Cai, Yulei Xie, Guanhui Cheng and Pingping Zhang

Effect of water-saving technologies on nitrogen losses in rice fields: A meta-analysis

Sabi Kidirou Gbedourorou, Pierre G. Tovihoudji, Sissou Zakari, Marnik Vanclooster and P.B. Irenikatché Akponikpè

Enhancing the prediction of irrigation demand for open field vegetable crops in Germany through neural networks, transfer learning, and ensemble models

Samantha Rubo and Jana Zinkernagel

Effects of subsurface drainage and year-round irrigation on crop water-salt stress and yield in an arid region

Jiawei Liu, Quanzhong Huang, Zelin Hou, Xiaojiang Zhu, Fuping Xue and Guanhua Huang

Improving maize water stress diagnosis accuracy by integrating multimodal UAVs data and leaf area index inversion model

Qi Liu, Xiaolong Hu, Yiqiang Zhang, Liangsheng Shi, Wei Yang, Yixuan Yang, Ruxin Zhang, Dongliang Zhang, Ze Miao, Yifan Wang and Zhongyi Qu

Improving synergy of the water-agriculture-ecology system in arid areas using a novel co-optimization model

Xingyu Zhu, Xiaoling Su, Vijay P. Singh, Haijiang Wu, Jiping Niu, Lianzhou Wu and Jiangdong Chu

Simultaneous retrieval of soil moisture and salinity in arid and semiarid regions using Sentinel-1 data and a revised dielectric model for salty soil

Leilei Dong, Weizhen Wang, Tao Che, Yuhao Wang, Xin Huang, Shengyin Zhang, Feinan Xu and Jiaojiao Feng

Private service provision contributes to widespread innovation adoption among smallholder farmers: Laser land levelling technology in northwestern India

Subash Surendran-Padmaja, Martin C. Parlasca, Matin Qaim and Vijesh V. Krishna

Evaluating hydroponics and aquaponics: Comparative insights into sustainability and strawberry quality

N. Korbee, B. Bautista, M. García-Sánchez, P. Cobos, J.L. Ferres-García, F.L. Figueroa and E. Medrano

Effect of irrigation salinity on yield and quality of seeds in different quinoa genotypes

Salima Yousfi, Mohammad Shahid, Sumitha Thushar, João Pedro Ferreira, Maria Dolors Serret and José Luis Araus

Multi-objective optimization of soil water-nitrogen management practice and seeding rate for sustainable soybean production on the Loess Plateau of China

Zhenqi Liao, Xiaohui Ding, Hongxin Zhang, Hui Zhang, Zhijun Li, Fucang Zhang and Junliang Fan

Optimizing the ratios of ridge-furrow mulching patterns and urea types improve the resource use efficiency and yield of broomcorn millet on the Loess Plateau of China

Lingling Cui, Jilian Lu, Shihao Ding, Xiaosa Song, Pengliang Chen, Baili Feng and Lixin Tian

Multi-model ensemble mapping of irrigated areas using remote sensing, machine learning, and ground truth data

Muhammad Umar Akbar, Ali Mirchi, Arfan Arshad, Sara Alian, Mukesh Mehata, Saleh Taghvaeian, Kasra Khodkar, Jacob Kettner, Sumon Datta and Kevin Wagner

Potential deficit irrigation adaptation strategies under climate change for sustaining cotton production in hyper–arid areas

Xiaoping Chen, Haibo Dong, Zhiming Qi, Dongwei Gui, Liwang Ma, Kelly R. Thorp, Robert Malone, Hao Wu, Bo Liu and Shaoyuan Feng

Effect of dynamic pressure and emitter type on irrigation and fertigation uniformity of drip irrigation systems

Shaobo Xing, Kexin Du, Ningning Liu, Miao Li, Wenhao Li, Jihong Zhang, Feihu Yin, Jinzhu Zhang and Zhenhua Wang

Investigating the supply–demand gap of farmland ecosystem services to advance sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Central Asia

Jiangyue Li, Xi Chen, Philippe De Maeyer, Tim Van de Voorde and Yaoming Li

Night transpiration of peanut affects interspecific water complementarity and use efficiency in maize/peanut intercropping

Tianran Sun, Zhanxiang Sun, Zhe Zhang, Yue Zhang, Yajiaoxue Guo, Jinyu Zhang, Jiayi Nie, Zhi Dong, Zeshan Zhang, Chenjia Zhang, Xu Zhang, Chen Feng and Lizhen Zhang

The impact of digital inclusive finance on alternate irrigation technology innovation: From the perspective of the 'catfish effect' in financial markets

Shilong Meng, Yanjun Jiang, Jiahui Song, Hongwu Sun and Yanfei Sha

Development and performance evaluation of novel jet self-cleaning for screen filters in drip irrigation systems: More efficient, water-saving, and cleaner

Zhouyang Qin, Ningning Liu, Jinzhu Zhang, Zhenhua Wang, Wenyao Liang, Miao Li and Jihong Zhang

Groundwater drought propagation and the drought resistance capacity in different climatic regions of China

Shuqi Dong, Linqi Li, Zhaoqiang Zhou, Qiang Fu, Mo Li and Ping Xue

Bundling regions to explore synergies and trade-offs among water-wetland-food nexus in Black Soil Granary, China

Xiaolu Chen, Ying Guo, Qingtao Ma, Yilin Shen, Xiaolong Zhang, Shui Yu and Yanjun Shen

Catchment-based approach for water table management with irrigation for cultivated peatlands

Miika Läpikivi, Maarit Liimatainen, Bjørn Kløve and Hannu Marttila

Dual-mulching under no-tillage promotes maize root growth and improves yield by optimizing soil hydrothermal conditions in semi-arid regions

Jia Wang, Jun Fan, Huan Wang, Xi Wang, Yuzhu Xing, Yongquan Gao and Mingde Hao

Integrated deep vertical rotary tillage and subsurface pipe drainage techniques for sustainable soil salinization management and cotton production in arid regions

Zhijie Li, Qiang Meng, Ling Li, Zhentao Bai, Yanjie Li, Hongguang Liu, Pengfei Li and Tangang Wang

Assessment of SIMDualKc model for irrigation scheduling of winter wheat in the Haouz plain, Morocco

Zaineb Bouswir, Salah Er-Raki, Saïd Khabba, Jamal Ezzahar, Hiba Ait Ben ahmed, Zoubair Rafi and Abdelghani Chehbouni

A multi-objective synergistic optimization model considering the water-energy-food-carbon nexus and bioenergy

Gaiqiang Yang, Yuxin Su, Lijuan Huo, Dongpeng Guo and Yusi Wu

A novel low-cost trunk load cell sensor for estimating canopy transpiration in the grapevine

Filippo Del Zozzo, Ginevra Canavera, Tommaso Frioni, Eugenio Magnanini and Stefano Poni

Quantification of phosphorus-uptake effect on table grape (Vitis vinifera L.) cvs. Early Sweet and Crimson physiology, growth, and productivity using a lysimeter system

Patrick Mdemba, Noemi Tel-Zur, Gastone Tanga, Uri Yermiyahu, Noam Reshef, Amnon Lichter, Yonatan Ron and Arnon Dag

Understanding hydrometeorological conditions and their relationship with crop production in the upper east region, Ghana

C.I. Kelly, E.F. Boateng, A. Zibrila, S.A. Andam-Akorful, J.A. Quaye-Ballard, P.B. Laari and P. Damoah-Afari

Trade-offs among yield, water productivity, water footprint, and economic benefits for wheat production under conservation tillage: A long-term field experiment approach

Linlin Wang, Lingling Li, Junhong Xie, Zhuzhu Luo, Setor Kwami Fudjoe, Jairo A. Palta and Shiqing Li

How does farmer differentiation effect agricultural water use efficiency? Evidence from China

Ming Chang, Hongxu Shi, Shiya Yuan, Kelin Chen, Xueyan Zhang and Jinhao Zhang

Manure application rather than plastic-film uncovering to sustainably alleviate plastic-greenhouse soil nitrate surplus and salinity in Yangtze River Delta

Ying Tang, Xiao Ma, Yun Zhao, Yang Li, Xuehong Ma, Xiong Cao, Xin Zhao and Jinlong Dong

Warming increases root water uptake on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau via changes in alpine meadows root tips

Baisha Weng, Siying Yan, Haotian Fang and Bin Deng

Evaluating alternative crops as a solution to water stress in the U.S. Southwest

Noah Silber-Coats, Emile Elias, Katherine Fernald and Mason Gagliardi

Evaluating the impact of floating spheres on evaporation reduction and water salinity control in reservoirs

Guo-chen Hao, Ke-Bin Shi and Ke-wu Han

Enhancing nitrogen fertilizer productivity in cotton fields in southern Xinjiang by improving the soil microenvironment through water and nitrogen management

Fengnian Zhao, Weixiong Huang, Xin Zhao, Lei Zhang, Yuanhang Guo, Hongbo Wang, Xingpeng Wang and Yang Gao

Optimizing sowing date, fertilization, and irrigation strategies for winter wheat in Tensift Al Haouz (Morocco) using the DSSAT-CERES-wheat model

Lahoucine Ech-chatir, Salah Er-Raki, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, Abdelilah Meddich and Abdelghani Chehbouni

Evaluation of crop water status using UAV-based images data with a model updating strategy

Ning Yang, Zhitao Zhang, Xiaofei Yang, Ning Dong, Qi Xu, Junying Chen, Shikun Sun, Ningbo Cui and Jifeng Ning

Evaluation of electricity use and carbon emissions for agricultural water supply in South Korea: Focusing on Water for Food (W-F) nexus system

Pu Reun Yoon, Jin-Yong Choi and Sang-Hyun Lee

Maximizing crop yield and economic benefit through water and nitrogen optimization in bell pepper

Adewale Suraj Bello, Samsul Huda, Zhong-Hua Chen, Mohammed Alsafran, Mahmoud Abdellatif and Talaat Ahmed

Estimation of unplanned water use based on system dynamics model in arid areas

Xin Wang, Minghong Tan and Xingyuan Xiao

Significant increase and escalation of drought-flood abrupt alteration in China's future

Shuai Zheng, Baisha Weng, Wuxia Bi, Denghua Yan, Liliang Ren and Hao Wang

Spatiotemporal dynamics and driving factors of irrigation water demands in China

Suning Fan, Tongbing Liu, Minzhong Zou, Yu Fang, Jun Niu and Shaozhong Kang

Reconfiguring agricultural water management practices: Lessons from research on scaling of controlled drainage and subirrigation systems

Onno Giller, Huub Ploegmakers and Sander Meijerink

Effects of land use/cover change on propagation dynamics from meteorological to soil moisture drought considering nonstationarity

Meng Dai, Ping Feng, Jianzhu Li, Xiaogang Shi and Hanye Wang

Resilience assessment of interprovincial crop virtual water flow network in China

Hongrong Huang, La Zhuo, Yiping Wu, Yilin Liu, Xiangxiang Ji and Pute Wu

High spatio-temporal resolution soil moisture nowcasting at multiple depths with data-driven approaches

Yuxi Zhang, Niranjan Wimalathunge, Sebastian Haan, Jie Wang, Xinglong Zou and Thomas Bishop

Effects of delayed nitrogen fertilizer drip timing on soil total salt, cotton yield and nitrogen fertilizer use efficiency

Junxiao Zhang, Xiangwen Xie, Changxue Wu, Fan Cai and Yongmei Xu

Assessing variation, components, and driving factors of the water footprint for tobacco production in China

Jinsong Ti, Zhao Zhang, Yikuan Fan, Yi Chen, Haobin Zhao, Renfeng Sun, Xiaobo Xu, Wenshuai Dong, Fan He and Shuo Wei

Enhancing root-zone soil moisture estimation using Richards' equation and dynamic surface soil moisture data

Xizhuoma Zha, Wenbin Zhu, Yan Han and Aifeng Lv

Enhancing water balance simulations in SWAT for paddy-dominated catchments through refined soil moisture dynamics

Meng Xiang, Di Wu, Qianan Yu, Haitao Wu, Tianchi Cai and Yuanlai Cui

Evaluation of best management practices for controlling water pollution in an arid irrigation district

Tingting Wei, Yanan Jiang, Xun Zhang, Yanan Chen, Qihao Ma, Jianzhe Hou, Yakun Wang and Bingwei Tong

Optimization of inner flow dynamics in aeration impact sprinklers through CFD simulation, theoretical analysis, and experimental validation of stabilizer design for enhanced hydraulic performance

Waqar Ahmed Qureshi, Qingjiang Xiang, Mazhar Hussain Tunio, Junaid Ahmed Qureshi, Abdallah Harold Mosha, Jianmin Gao and Osama Elsherbiny

Long-term DSSAT simulation of nitrogen loss to artificial subsurface drainage flow for a corn-soybean rotation with winter rye in Iowa

Amitava Chatterjee, Kelly R. Thorp, O’Brien, Peter L., John Kovar, Natalia Rogovska and Robert W. Malone