Agricultural Water Management

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Volume 318, issue C, 2025

High-resolution drought monitoring with Sentinel-1 and ASCAT: A case-study over Mozambique

Samuel Massart, Mariette Vreugdenhil, Rafael Rogério Borguete, Carina Villegas-Lituma, Pavan Muguda Sanjeevamurthy, Sebastian Hahn and Wolfgang Wagner

DRAINMOD predicted impact of climate change on hydrology, corn yield, and drainage design in the Western Lake Erie Basin, United States

Babak Dialameh, Ehsan Ghane and Mohamed Youssef

Estimating comprehensive growth index for drip-irrigated spring maize in junggar basin via satellite imagery and machine learning

Mingjie Ma, Jinghua Zhao, Tingrui Yang, Feng Liu, Yingying Yuan, Shijiao Ma and Zikang Chang

Paired-field evaluation of a saturated buffer reveals significant water-quality benefits through upstream weir management

Ehsan Ghane, Yousef Abdalaal and Ashkan Tehrani

Dry matter accumulation, translocation, and bulb yield of short-day onion as affected by cultivars and drip irrigation regimes in the dry-hot regions of southwest China

Yilin Li, Jiancha Li, Binyan Zhang, Xuewen Yue, Kun Li, Daming Chen, Yujiao Yang, Xiaogang Liu and Haidong Fang

Strategies for mitigating winter wheat yield reduction in the Yellow River basin: Simulations and insights from CMIP6 data and the improved DSSAT-CERES-wheat model

Yingnan Wei, Ziya Zhang, Miaolei Hou, La Zhuo, Ning Yao, LinChao Li, Jiangfeng Xiangli, Tehseen Javed, Jianqiang He and Qiang Yu

Assessing onion salt tolerance using soil apparent electrical conductivity directed soil sampling, planet scope derived yield maps, and boundary analysis

Gopal R. Mahajan, Elia Scudiero, Amninder Singh, Aliasghar Montazar and Dennis L. Corwin

Field and numerical evaluation of discontinuous improved subsurface drainage for waterlogging control

Yuan Tao, Jing Liu, QiuYang Su, Xiaoyan Guan, Xiaomin Chang and Haorui Chen

Drought and consumption impacts of climate-smart-agricultural practices adoption in drought prone area of Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia

Jafer Mume Ahmed, Jema Haji, Moti Jaleta and Kedir Jemal

Spatial and temporal evolution trends of groundwater drought and its correlation with meteorological drought in Guizhou province

Aili Wang, Yuanxiao Xing, Shunsheng Wang, Donglin Wang and Cundong Xu

Experimental and numerical evaluation of the two-dimensional dynamics of water and nitrogen within a vegetated filter strip in the Daihai Basin, China

Bokai Yang, Xianyue Li, Fanfan Song, Delong Tian, Jianwen Yan and Ning Chen

Optimizing brackish water irrigation using magnetoelectric treatment for sustainable cotton cultivation in the arid region of southern Xinjiang

Xiaoxian Duan, Quanjiu Wang, Weiyi Mu, Changkun Ma, Kai Wei, Yan Sun and Xue Zhao

Regional variations and climatic drivers of flash droughts during the growing season in China (2000–2020)

Ming Li, Jingming Hou, Lei Wang, Shengwei Zong, Guiwen Wang and Xurong Chai

Evaluation and improvement of crop root-water-uptake and transpiration in AquaCrop

Ting Zhang, Qiang Zuo, Jianchu Shi, Yuchuan Fan, Sumei Zhang, Xun Wu and Alon Ben-Gal

Functional roles of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in ungrafted and grafted watermelons under various deficit irrigation strategies

Nurcan Yavuz, Musa Seymen, Duran Yavuz, Ünal Kal, Ertan Sait Kurtar, Songül Kal and Ayşegül Gür

Assimilating UAV observations and crop model simulations for dynamic estimation of crop water stress

Qi Liu, Xiaolong Hu, Yiqiang Zhang, Liangsheng Shi, Liping Wang, Yixuan Yang, Jiawen Shen, Jiong Zhu, Dongliang Zhang and Zhongyi Qu

Using weather forecasts to avoid major emission events of N2O in connection with manure application

Line Vinther Hansen, Azeem Tariq, Lars Stoumann Jensen and Sander Bruun

Trade-offs of saline irrigation on crop productivity across China: A meta-analysis

Zhenjiang Jia, Yangyang Wu, Wangcheng Li, Zixuan Jia, Yahao Huang, Haowen Xu, Guangxing Zhao and Xiaocui Yao

Predicting groundwater withdrawals using machine learning with limited metering data: Assessment of training data requirements

Dawit Asfaw, Ryan G. Smith, Sayantan Majumdar, Katherine Grote, Bin Fang, B.B. Wilson, V. Lakshmi and J.J. Butler

Effects of different annual irrigation strategies on soil water, salt, nitrogen leaching, and sunflower growth in saline soils of arid regions

Jiawei Liu, Lei Sun, Xiaojiang Zhu, Huaxian Deng, Yiming Fan, Quanzhong Huang and Guanhua Huang

A distributed hybrid model for agricultural water-land resource matching

Shufang Wang, Mohamed Khaled Salahou, Liping Wang, Honghui Sang, Shiwei Li and Yuping Lv

Integrated strategies for water sustainability in the Yellow River Basin: Roles of water transfer, reclaimed water, and irrigation efficiency

Weibin Zhang, Wei Liang, Xuerui Gao, Xiaodong Gao, Shuai Li and Xining Zhao

Temporal evolution of soil drought stress and its relationship with climate change for tea plantations in the subtropical–warm temperate climate transition zone of China

Zhongdian Zhang, Miao Cai, Songzhu Ye, Tonghui Liu, Mingbin Huang, Wei Zhang, Shuangfeng Jiang, Chong Yao, Junhui Yan and Jiqiang Niu

Geospatial techniques for identifying optimal rainwater harvesting sites to enhance agricultural productivity in hyper arid areas

Hazrat Bilal, Rajesh Govindan, Slim Zekri, Ali Al-Maktoumi, Mohammad Mahdi Rajabi and Chefi Triki

Life cycle assessment of environment benefits in wheat production under water-saving and nitrogen-reducing practices in the North China Plain

Chao Wang, Yehan Fu, Hongge Wang, Yazhan Ren, Yunying Zhang, Yuzhao Ma, Yunzhou Qiao, Baodi Dong and Yuechen Zhang

Biochemical processes within a two-stage agricultural drainage ditch in Mower County, MN: Methods for estimating nitrogen removal rates and efficiencies

Lori Han, Bruce Wilson, Joseph Magner, Linse Lahti, Geoff Kramer, Brad Hansen and John Nieber

Scenario projections of future irrigation water demand for field crops in Germany considering farmers’ adaptive land use

Jasmin Heilemann, Mansi Nagpal, Simon Werner, Bernd Klauer, Erik Gawel and Christian Klassert

Adaptive crop switching for irrigated agriculture in response to climate change in the Western U.S

Shahryar Fazli, Wenzhao Li, Surendra Maharjan, Rejoice Thomas, Aqil Tariq and Hesham El-Askary

Year patterns of climate impact models' performance: Long-term simulation of rainfed spring wheat production using five crop models under various climate patterns

Funian Zhao, Qiang Zhang, Heling Wang and Kai Zhang

Nitrogen reduction with supplemental irrigation enhances yield by delaying leaf senescence and optimizing grain-filling process for ridge-furrow film mulching winter wheat

Xiaobo Gu, Yang Xu, Tongtong Zhao, Yadan Du, Yuanling Zhang, Yuyu Tian, Zhikai Cheng, Huanjie Cai and Zhandong Liu

Green manure incorporation with nitrogen reduction improves water productivity of spring wheat in arid areas

Bo Yin, Aizhong Yu, Pengfei Wang, Yulong Wang, Yongpan Shang, Dongling Zhang, Yalong Liu, Xiaoneng Pang, Keqiang Jiang, Jianzhe Huo, Feng Wang and Yue Li

A synthesis of soybean yield response to controlled drainage under varying precipitation patterns in the US Midwest

J.S. Strock, M.A. Youssef, H. Moursi, K. Nelson, A.Z. Ranaivoson and C.A. Poole

Molecular and hydraulic responses of grapevine to water status and phenology under long-term differential irrigation treatments

Miguel Damásio, Clara Pinto, Julio Salguero, Maria Victoria Alarcón, João de Deus, Teresa Soares David, José Silvestre, Luísa C. Carvalho and Olfa Zarrouk

Water management mitigates drought stress effects on maize leaf senescence and post-anthesis dry matter accumulation

Zhenhua Yan, Yi Liu, Shang Gao, Hongye Yang, Dayun Feng, Kexin Gao, Bo Ming, Keru Wang, Peng Hou, Shaokun Li and Ruizhi Xie

Spatiotemporal dynamics of soil moisture and matric potential under different land covers at an agricultural site

Dongdong Wu, Tiejun Wang, Yibin Dai, Zhang Yu and Jing Xu

Optimized water management in intelligent cultivation systems mitigates greenhouse gas emissions and energy demand while ensuring rice yield sustainability

Wenan Weng, Ping Liao, Xiuli Li, Minmin Sun, Yufei Ling, Zhipeng Xing, Jiwei Qu, Juan Chen, Haiyan Wei, Hui Gao and Hongcheng Zhang

Evapotranspiration partitioning over the Tibetan plateau: Spatial-seasonal patterns and possible controls

Xiaoyu Guo, Lide Tian, Lei Wang, Lin Zhang, YuanWei Wang, Yao Li and Wanglin Zhao

Collaborative management of water-agriculture-energy-ecology nexus for increasing carbon sequestration to sustainable development: A case study in inland river Northwest China

Xiaoyu Tang, Yue Huang, Xiaohui Pan, Yunan Ling, Chanjuan Zan, Jiabin Peng, Xi Chen and Tie Liu

Ethical evolution in the management of water resources: The role of developed norms on decreasing groundwater usage in Iranian agricultural practices

Moslem Savari, Hamed Eskandari Damaneh and Hadi Eskandari Damaneh

Cooking and eating quality of rice as affected by nitrogen fertilizers and alternate wetting and moderate drying irrigation at panicle stage

Yunji Xu, Yu Huang, Xuelian Weng, Indrila Dey Traye, Shupeng Tang, Xiufeng Jiang, Kuanyu Zhu, Weiyang Zhang, Hao Zhang, Zhiqin Wang and Jianchang Yang

Quantifying relative contributions of irrigation and internal climate variability to evapotranspiration shifts in China's Northwest drylands

Jingyang Guo, Yaqi Wang, Baozhong Zhang, Songjun Han, Wenhui Liu, Guo Li and Qingxin Li

Integrating crop, groundwater, and economic dynamics: Insights into climate adaptation in the overexploited U.S. ogallala aquifer

Jiayao Zhu, Beibei Ding, Yong Chen, Puyu Feng, Jianing Ge, De Li Liu, Raghavan Srinivasan, Lili Yu and Xueliang Zhang

Coordinated regulation of water use-efficiency-cost in a winter wheat-summer maize rotation system and optimization of water allocation strategies

Li Zhao, Congying Han, Yinong Li, Baozhong Zhang, Yulu Zheng and Jiabing Cai

Assessing future maize water demand in Karnataka under CMIP6 climate projections: model evaluation and CROPWAT simulations

Shankarappa Sridhara, Hemareddy Thimmareddy, Mahesh Haroli, Santanu Kumar Bal, Bappa Das, Prakash Kumar Jha and P.V.Vara Prasad

Prediction of the daily spatial variation of stem water potential in cherry orchards using weather and Sentinel-2 data

Francisco Zambrano, Abel Herrera, Mauricio Olguín, Miro Miranda, Jesica Garrido and Andrea Miyasaka Almeida

Logistics of irrigation pump shut off and well-switching for a groundwater-based maize–rice–soybean farm in Northeast Arkansas

Gustavo B. Lima, Joseph H. Massey, José H.N. Flores, Lessandro C. Faria, Michele L. Reba and Alton B. Johnson

No tillage with plastic re-mulching enhances yield stability and maintains high water productivity of maize by improving water eco-physiology and root traits in northwest oasis regions

Liping Wang, Wen Yin, Pan Li, Yao Guo, Lianhao Zhao, Pingxing Wan, Diankai Zhang, Zhilong Fan, Falong Hu, Wei He, Yunyou Nan, Qiang Chai, Baoqing Zhang, Heyu Chen, Mohamed Abdalla and Pete Smith

Dissolved nitrous oxide in subsurface drainage under stacking split nitrogen management and cereal rye cover cropping

Luciano Alves Oliveira, Mary E. Foltz, Julie L. Zilles and Laura E. Christianson

Biogas slurry topdressing as replacement of chemical fertilizers boosts water and nitrogen use efficiency and yield in semiarid rainfed field crops

Haitao Wang, Xiaoyang Liang, Xiaokun Feng, Xuefeng Qiu, Shuaijie Wang, Jiandong Wang and Baoqing Chen

Decile-based index drought insurance to help improve income stability for wheat producers in Australia

Jonathan Barratt, Jarrod Kath, Brian Collins, Shahbaz Mushtaq and Duc-Anh An-Vo

Impacts of integrated meteorological and agricultural drought on global maize yields

Jiao Wang, Wenbin Liu and Dongqin Yin

Deficit irrigation affects fruit quality, production and resource allocation of ‘d’Anjou’ and ‘Bartlett’ pear trees

Victor Blanco, Noah Willsea, Thiago Campbell, Orlando Howe and Lee Kalcsits

A case study on the application of a data-driven (XGBoost) approach on the environmental and socio-economic perspectives of agricultural groundwater management

Sheng-Wei Wang, Yen-Yu Chen, Shu-Han Hsu, Yu-Hsuan Kao, Masaomi Kimura, Li-chiu Chang, Tzi-Wen Pan and Chuen-Fa Ni

Switchgrass for abandoned mine lands reclamation: A SWAT-based hydrological and water quality assessment

Arshad Ansari, Amit Prasad Timilsina, Ajay Shah, Ashish Manandhar and Sami Khanal

Evaluation of crop growth simulation by use of satellite rainfall estimates in Lake Victoria basin

Calisto Kennedy Omondi, Tom H.M. Rientjes, Martijn J. Booij and Andrew D. Nelson

Response mechanism of agricultural drought to meteorological drought in the Yellow River Basin

Dehe Xu, Menglong Wang, Ke Zhang, Qi Zhang, Shiwen Wu and Jingbao Fu

Advancing basin-scale drought monitoring: Development of a regional combined drought index using precipitation, soil moisture, and vegetation data

Asnake Kassahun Abebe, Xiang Zhou, Tingting Lv, Zui Tao, Yared Bayissa, Hongming Zhang and Abdelrazek Elnashar

Assessing the effectiveness of irrigator-driven groundwater conservation programs to drought: A case study of the northwestern Kansas Local Enhanced Management Areas

Wayne Ndlovu, Sam Zipper and Timothy Foster

Multi-objective optimization of best management practices at watershed scale: A case study of drinking water source watersheds in northeast black soil region of China

Yang Deng, Yang Ou, Shujiang Pang, Baixing Yan, Hui Zhu, Liming Yan and Qi Cui

Projecting food-energy-water sustainability through ecosystem service modeling under climate and land use change in a subtropical agricultural watershed

Yu-Pin Lin, Pei-Chen Lin, Shafira Wuryandani, Chiao-Ming Lin and Gerard H. Ros

Developing reservoir operation strategy under the mechanism-data dual-driven framework: Coordinating the water demand characteristics of multi sectors

Zhiwen Peng, Aijun Guo, Jianxia Chang, Yimin Wang, Xuebin Wang, Chen Niu and Zhehao Li

Review of advancements and challenges in delayed irrigation: Enhancing crop water productivity and sustainable crop production

Run Xue, Yue Jiang, Hong Li and Bin Shi

Tracking and assessing water behaviors in the management of irrigation districts’ water rights trading through water accounting

Fengguang Lyu, Hongbo Zhang, Chiheng Dang, Hao Ding and Zhaoxia Ye

An interpretable coupled model (SWAT-STFT) for multispatial-multistep evapotranspiration prediction in the river basin

Zhonghui Guo, Chang Feng, Liu Yang and Qing Liu

Spatiotemporal dynamics of cultivated land and its impact on water security in northern China

Zheng Xv and Aifeng Lv

Efficiency of radiation and water use of four contrasting soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merril) cultivars grown in the rainfed area of northern Argentina

Salvador Prieto-Angueira, María-Auxiliadora Soriano, María-Clara Berton and Elías Fereres

Improving wheat yield and water use efficiency through soil water-guided furrow irrigation and hydraulic simulation

Dong-Hyeon Kim, Younggu Her, Liguang Cheng and Taeil Jang

Minimal preferential transport of microplastics through macropores in irrigated disturbed and undisturbed soil columns

Xiaomei Yang, Ronglong Chen and Darrell W.S. Tang

Coupled effects of blended urea application under the ridge-furrow system on spring maize productivity and water-nitrogen use efficiency in the Loess Plateau

Fan Zhang, Mengru Chen, Qiqi Chen, Yingying Xing and Xiukang Wang

Drip irrigation can improve the absorption, transfer and fixation of light energy in soybean under heavy metal stress

Yuhao Zhang, Qiang Fu, Tianxiao Li, Renjie Hou, Sumei Yao, Ling Huang and JingJing Lei

Sustainable biostimulant strategy through microalgae-based recycling of horticultural fertigation drainage management

Cunha–Chiamolera, Tatiana P.L., Miguel Urrestarazu, Francisco Gabriel Acién-Fernández, Cintia Gómez-Serrano, Adrián Guirao-García, Silvia Jimenéz-Becker, Raúl Ortega and Isabel Miralles

Retrieving total transpirable soil water in a rainfed vineyard using vine shoot growth, weather, and Sentinel-2 data

Yulin Zhang, Léo Pichon, Sébastien Roux, Anne Pellegrino, Guillaume Coulouma and Bruno Tisseyre

Optimized selection of clean nitrogen fertilizers for high-sediment water pressure-compensating drip irrigation systems based on system failure perspective

Changjian Ma, Bowen Li, Lining Liu, Enkai Cao, Qichao Zhang, Zeqiang Sun, Peng Hou and Yan Li