Agricultural Water Management

1976 - 2025

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

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Volume 316, issue C, 2025

A path towards precision border irrigation combining hydrodynamic modelling and in-field sensor-based support

Paul Vandôme, Gilles Belaud, Mohamed Amine Berkaoui, Cédric Guillemin, François Charron and Crystèle Leauthaud

Drought resistance cotton genotypes evaluation with multi-year & multi-site study

Jinglin Li, Shaodong Liu, Ruihua Liu, Huijuan Ma, Qian Shen, Siping Zhang, Changwei Ge and Chaoyou Pang

Variations in water uptake pattern and soil desiccation in response to vegetation types on the western Loess Plateau in China

Hongqian Yu, Yixian Bi, Zhanjun Wang and Yingjun Zhang

Irrigation performance and hydrological indicators in an irrigated catchment: How participatory research within a FabLab can contribute to sustainable irrigated production

Encarnación V. Taguas, Blanca Cuadrado-Alarcón, Ignacio Domenech, M. Ascensión Carmona, Luciano Mateos and Helena Gomez-Macpherson

Advancing SWAT modeling with rainfall risk-based fertilizer timing to improve nutrient management and crop yields

Asmita Murumkar, Mahesh Tapas, Jay Martin, Margaret Kalcic, Vinayak Shedekar, Dustin Goering, Andrea Thorstensen, Chelsie Boles, Todd Redder and Rem Confesor

Centrifugation method for rapid measurement of total soil water-soluble salt

Zhengyang Jia, Zi Chen, Hai Yang, Yun Li, Quanping Zhou, Yuehua Jiang, Yuanyuan Chen, Hong Zhang, Qiuju Qi, Lili Hou, Shijia Mei and Yang Jin

Research on the advantages and optimal irrigation regime for maize-Cyperus esculentus intercropping system in northwestern Liaoning, China

Xiaoping Dai, Xinhao Du, Siyuan Zhao, Haoran Liu and Xiuqin Yu

Actual crop coefficients for cereal crops in Montana USA from eddy covariance observations

Ojaswee Shrestha, Anam Khan, Jessica A. Torrion, W. Adam Sigler, Kent McVay, Scott L. Powell and Paul C. Stoy

Shifting sands to sustainable soils: Spatial dynamics of soil water and salinity in a desert oasis ecotone

Qiqi Cao, Tao Liu, Jiangbao Xia, Junran Li, Sujith Ravi, Zhiming Xin and Huijie Xiao

Optimizing nitrogen application rate through critical nitrogen concentration dilution curves for sesame under different water conditions

Rujie Lv, Qingyin Shang, Fengjuan Lv, Ruiqing Wang, Junhai He and Lingen Wei

Dynamic control of upper limit for rainfall storing and effective use in rice paddies based on improved AquaCrop model

En Lin, Rangjian Qiu, Xinxin Li, Mengting Chen, Shizong Zheng, Fei Ren, Xiaoming Xiang, Chenglong Ji, Yuanlai Cui and Yufeng Luo

Lowering cropland use intensity through crop-fallow rotation optimization fosters a resilient water future in the central farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China

Xin Chen, Pingli An, Yaoyao Li, Guoliang Zhang, Yuling Jin, Yi Zhou, Haile Zhao, Luying Li and Zhihua Pan

Depth distributions of soil temperature: Seasonal sensitivity and simulation across dryness/wetness conditions

Yining Wang, Jiefeng Wu, Jian-yun Zhang, Tiesheng Guan, Guoqing Wang, Junliang Jin and Zhenlong Wang

Impacts of change in multiple cropping index of rice on hydrological components and grain production in the Zishui River Basin, Southern China

Chengcheng Yuan, Xinlin Li, Yufeng Wu, Gary W. Marek, Srinivasulu Ale, Raghavan Srinivasan and Yong Chen

Evolving patterns of compound heat and water stress conditions: Implications for agriculture futures in Australia

Navid Ghajarnia, Ulrike Bende-Michl, Wendy Sharples, Elisabetta Carrara and Sigrid Tijs

The Pathways to increase farmers' agricultural operating income by improving irrigation water accessibility amid climate change

Shi Jiankui, Chen Jingru and Hu Xiangdong

Impact of irrigation modernization and high Aswan Dam inflow on Nile water system efficiency and water reuse in Egypt

Gaber Abdellatif, Ibrahim Gaafar, Marnix Van Der Vat, Petra Hellegers, Hosam El-Din El-Naggar, Angel de Miguel Garcia and Chris Seijger

Assessment of hydrological response to soil and water conservation measures in the Loess Plateau based on a novel modeling framework

Xixi Wu, Xuehua Zhao, Xuerui Gao, Bowen Zhu, Xueping Zhu, Xining Zhao, Pan Chen, Xiaoqi Guo and Marie Rose Iribagiza

Observed field drainage and concentration dynamics reveal the importance of onsite mitigation of pesticide pollution in a rice growing area in eastern China

Zhonghua Jia, Yawen Chen, Cheng Chen, Wenlong Liu and Wan Luo

SHAP-powered insights into short-term drought dynamics disturbed by diurnal temperature range across China

Yao Feng, Fubao Sun and Fa Liu

Nature positive farm dams

K.U.D.N. Hansani, Lukas Schuster, Peter I. Macreadie and Martino E. Malerba

Optimizing irrigation amount and salinity level for sustainable cotton production and soil health

Dong Lin, Wenping Bi, Yujie He, Yanzhe Ge and Xiaomin Mao

An agricultural drought early warning threshold model with considering copula combined with diminishing marginal benefit theory: A case study in the Yellow River basin

Tanrui Qian, Xiaoling Su, Haijiang Wu, Vijay P. Singh and Te Zhang

Crop water use and crop coefficients of sunflower in the U.S. Central Great Plains

Thomas J. Trout, Kendall C. DeJonge and Huihui Zhang

A process-based modelling of groundwater recharge under contrasting irrigation methods in semi-arid crops

Taha Attou, Sylvain Kuppel, Mohamed Hakim Kharrou, Jamal Ezzahar, Lhoussaine Bouchaou, Yassine Ait Brahim, Valérie Demarez and Abdelghani Chehbouni

Effects of treated wastewater irrigation on soil properties, nutrient uptakes, and crop yields of agronomic crops under different crop rotations

Mohammad Saleh, Mobin Salehi, Shayan Khanaki, Hamed Ebrahimian, Abdolmajid Liaghat, Seyed Majid Mousavi, Salar Pashapour and Ali Ashrafi

Organic substitution regulated the soil microbial communities by modifying nutrient limitations in saline-alkaline soils

Yue Han, Zhanli Ma, Rui Chen, Yue Wen, Yonghui Liang, Jinzhu Zhang, Wenhao Li and Zhenhua Wang

Assessment of agricultural watershed water budget considering upstream water budget against reservoir discharge and agricultural water supply

Seokhyeon Kim, Soonho Hwang, Hyunji Lee and Moon Seong Kang

Water and carbon fluxes in sprinkler irrigated winter wheat in North China Plain

Haijun Liu, Xueqing Zhou, Josef Tanny, Yuhui Ren, Xuyu Feng and Ronghao Liu

Irrigation and nitrogen fertilizer increase wheat productivity by improving root-shoot population coordination

Lifang Wang, Shijie Liu, Suhao Lu, Tianyu Lv, Dongyun Ma, Guozhang Kang, Yingxin Xie, Jutao Sun and Chenyang Wang

Comparison and evaluation of the suitability of existing irrigation area products in the Yellow River Basin

Rong Wang, Hao Duan, Chi Zhang, Zhen Hao, Wei Wang, Jie Wang, Yuhang Xiao, Wenjing Hua and Junyan He

Estimation of irrigation water use in arid areas by leveraging the similarity between heavy rainfall and irrigation

Zhiying Liu, Liangsheng Shi, Leilei He, Jiawen Shen, Haolin Xu, Shengwei Zhang, Tingxi Liu, Xiaolong Hu, Hongwei Xu and Yuanyuan Zha

Assessing the use of remotely sensed surface water flux to estimate net groundwater storage change in an aquifer predominantly used for irrigation

Cindy Viviers and Michael van der Laan

Climate change adaptation strategy of Greco grapevine

Antonello Bonfante, Maurizio Buonanno, Andrea Vitale, Arturo Erbaggio, Chiara Cirillo, Eleonora Guadagno, Francesca Petracca, Chiara Amitrano, Filippo Accomando, Angelita Gambuti and Veronica De Micco

Analysis of changes in water-heat-carbon fluxes at different time scales and their influencing factors in the cold black soil region of Northeast China

Shuang Lv, Fanxiang Meng, Tianxiao Li, Qiang Fu, Zhaoxing Xiao, Mo Li, Renjie Hou and Minghao Jiang

Climate, soil and management factors drive the quantitative relationships between soil fertility and spring maize water productivity in northern China

Jiao Shi, Minggang Xu, Xinhua He, Huaiping Zhou and Jianhua Li

Mesoscale unfrozen water content measurements in frozen oasis soils using combined cosmic-ray neutron sensing and time domain reflectometry networks

Yongyong Zhang, Shue Wei and Wenzhi Zhao

Investigating the suitability of Chameleon soil moisture sensors to improve water use of upland crops under conditions of temporal salinity

Brooke Kaveney, Chau Minh Khoi, Dang Duy Minh, Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong, Cao Dinh An Giang, Edward Barrett-Lennard, Tran Duy Khanh and Jason Condon

Evaluating the long-term effects of reclaimed wastewater irrigation on mango (Mangifera indica L.) cultivation: Soil quality, fruit yield, and fruit quality

José Francisco Santamaría Ortega, David Sarmiento Sarmiento, Álvaro Palacios Lara and Manuel Díaz-Pérez

Diagnosis and comprehensive evaluation of nitrogen nutrition in non-mulched drip irrigation cotton in southern Xinjiang based on critical nitrogen concentration

Guohui Li, Hongbo Wang, Yang Gao, Weixiong Huang, Maosong Tang, Yuanyuan Fu and Xingpeng Wang

Drought to inundation: Precipitation extremes exacerbate phosphorus loss in artificially drained watersheds

Rose C.K. Mumbi, Mark R. Williams, Kevin W. King, Chad J. Penn and James J. Camberato

Combining plant-based sensing and mechanistic modelling to quantify hydraulic resistance and capacitance for real-time irrigation in Mediterranean yellow-fleshed kiwifruit orchards

Maria Calabritto, Alba N. Mininni, Dirk J.W. De Pauw, Steve Green, Bartolomeo Dichio and Kathy Steppe

Inversion of soil salinization at the branch canal scale in the Hetao Irrigation District based on improved spectral indices

Yi Zhao, Qingfeng Miao, Haibin Shi, Xianyue Li, Jianwen Yan, Shuya Yang, Cong Hou, Cuicui Yu, Weiying Feng and Jiannan Hao

Quantifying the effects of irrigation schedule on groundwater level variability using a linked APSIM-MODFLOW model framework

Xia Liu, Zongzheng Yan, Yan-Jun Shen, Leilei Min, Shiqin Wang, Yanjun Shen and Ying Guo

Volume 315, issue C, 2025

The development and current challenges of irrigated agriculture in the western U.S

Aaron Hrozencik, Gabriela Perez-Quesada and Hannah Donahue

Unveiling the resilience of the water-energy-food nexus: A context-specific framework and evolutionary insights for the Yellow River Basin

Guiliang Tian, Jiawen Li, Zheng Wu, Qiuya Zhao, Qing Xia, Jinyi Zhang and Xingchao Niu

Straw return decreases N surface runoff losses in croplands: Evidence from a global meta-analysis

Xinyi Shi, Liangping Wu, Jing Xiang, Hongxu Liang, Ruibo Sun, Yusef Kianpoor Kalkhajeh, Zhi Wang, Heng Fang and Chao Ma

Evaluating the sustainability of wheat irrigation systems: Using life cycle assessment to monitor the Water-Energy-Food-Environment Nexus

Fereshteh Batoukhteh, Abdullah Darzi-Naftchali, Ali Motevali, Fatemeh Karandish and Markus Berger

A comparative life cycle assessment of drip and flood irrigation of in-shell pecan production in the Mesilla Valley, New Mexico, United States

Raji Lukkoor, Colleen C. Naughton, Sara M. Torres, Richard Heerema, Rolando A. Flores Galarza, Joshua H. Viers and Alexander G. Fernald

Enhanced estimation of reference evapotranspiration using hybrid deep learning models and remote sensing variables

Tze Ying Fong, Yuk Feng Huang, Ren Jie Chin and Chai Hoon Koo

Comparison of multiple plant sensors aimed at early detection of drought stress in the greenhouse

Satadal Dutta, Tom van den Berg, Mariska Koning, Inger Bij de Vaate, Thijs J. Bieling, Elias Kaiser, Gerard J. Verbiest, Qinwen Fan, Alex van Klink, Peter G. Steeneken and Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis

Evaluating the effect of vegetation type and topography on infiltration process in an arid mountainous area: Insights from continuous soil moisture monitoring network

Dongxiang Xue, Jie Tian, Baoqing Zhang, Weiming Kang and Chansheng He

Upcycling human excreta-derived products through sustainable seedling production: Feasibility studies

William Musazura, Taruvinga Badza, Siphesihle Nxumalo, Stephen O. Ojwach and Alfred Oduor Odindo

Irrigated agricultural production dynamics in response to rainfall variability and water policy reforms in the southern Murray-Darling Basin of Australia

Ketema Zeleke and David J. Luckett

Water saving benefits of autumn-sown sugar beet as a climate adaptation strategy for Iran

Reza Deihimfard, Esmaeil Mohammadi Ahmad-Mahmoudi, Sajjad Rahimi-Moghaddam, Arash Shakeri and Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei

Integration of Sentinel-1 and -2 imagery through advanced cloud computing improves hillside vineyard soil moisture analysis

Farid Faridani, Alessandro Mataffo, Giandomenico Corrado, Antonio Dente, Claudio Rossi, D’Urso, Guido and Boris Basile

Study on the inversion and spatiotemporal variation mechanism of soil salinization at multiple depths in typical oases in arid areas: A case study of Wei-Ku Oasis

Jinming Zhang, Jianli Ding, Zihan Zhang, Jinjie Wang, Xu Zeng and Xiangyu Ge

Rhizosphere bacterial community confers drought tolerance to Astragalus mongholicus

Shuyan Li, Peirong Li, Hao Ding, Simin Zhao, Jiamin Ai, Gehong Wei and Zhefei Li

Connecting the drops: A methodological challenge for the deployment of ICTs in mediterranean irrigation systems

Kevin Daudin, Gilles Belaud, Crystele Leauthaud, Zhour Bouzidi and Caroline Lejars

Connection between water consumption of apple production and subsurface water depletion on the Loess Plateau of China

Peijun Shi, Jianjun Yang, Yi Yang and Zhi Li

Impact of biochar and deficit irrigation on greenhouse gas emissions reduction in maize-wheat rotation systems

Tianyu Wang, Xin Cong, Jing Yu, Hui Zhao, Lirong Xu, Guibin Pang and Zhenghe Xu

Advances in crop growth modeling: A review of perennial crop and beneficial soil microorganism approaches

Lahoucine Ech-Chatir, Salah Er-Raki, Julio Cesar Rodriguez and Abdelilah Meddich

Effects of straw mulching and plastic mulching on maize yield and crop water productivity in China: A meta-analysis

Xuegui Zhang, Yao Li, Yanan Sun, Lianyu Yu, Jiatun Xu, Xiaobo Gu and Huanjie Cai

Harnessing nanoparticles to enhance crop production under drought stress: A quantitative meta-analysis

Hongzhao Li, Zihui Wang, Chengxiang Zhou, Huashuai Wang, Lingyun Chen, Huaiyu Yang and Dunyi Liu

Enhancing maize above-ground biomass estimation through multispectral, digital and LiDAR fusion on UAV platforms

Ziheng Feng, Zheqing Yang, Liunan Suo, Ke Wu, Zhiyao Ma, Haiyan Zhang, Jianzhao Duan and Wei Feng

Using generalized additive models to investigate drivers and controls on stream water nitrate concentrations in four agricultural catchments

Jason Galloway, Golnaz Ezzati, Daniel Hawtree, Karl Richards, Bridget Lynch, Edward Burgess, Ogjnen Zurovec, O’Neill, Macdara and Per-Erik Mellander

Accelerating soil water recovery in alfalfa-converted cropland: Critical roles of fallow season mulch, crop selection, and precipitation

Xu-Long Zhang, Ge Li, Yang-Yang Zhao, Bai-Rui Han, Wen-Feng Cong, Fusuo Zhang and Feng-Min Li

Temporal variations of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity under different land use types and its impact on water balance components

Tianqi Guo, Yalin Ji, Xiaoying Yan, Ahmed Yehia Mady, Rui Liu and Mingbin Huang

Probabilistic approach to monitoring vegetation water stress using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence data

Muhammad Abrar Faiz, Qiumei Wang, Shehakk Muneer, Yongqiang Zhang, Faisal Baig and Farah Naz

Study on the coupled coordination of water resources consumption and economic development in Heilongjiang province under different scenarios based on SD model

Meiyun Tao, Youzhu Zhao, Qiuxiang Jiang, Zilong Wang and Baohan Li

A machine learning-driven semi-mechanistic model for estimating actual evapotranspiration: Integrating photosynthetic indicators with vapor pressure deficit

Yao Li, Xiongbiao Peng, Zhunqiao Liu, Xiaoliang Lu, Xiaobo Gu, Lianyu Yu, Jiatun Xu and Huanjie Cai

Enhancing crop water productivity and aquifer recharge in arid regions: Water balance insights for optimized hybrid irrigation in pecan orchards

Jorge L. Preciado, Alexander G. Fernald, Richard Heerema and Curt Pierce

Spatiotemporal variation and driving forces of soil salinization in the lower reach of arid endorheic basins: Critical role of lake system and groundwater overflow

Yong Xiao, Wenxu Hu, Yuqing Zhang, Zhen Zhao, Guangxiong Qin, Huijuan Chen, Liwei Wang, Shaokang Yang, Jie Wang, Qiuming Pei and Yu Liu

Effects of mulching cultivation patterns on grain yield, resources use efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions of rainfed summer maize on the Loess Plateau of China

Jiayu Wang, Han Wang, Qingqing Sui, Bingxue Dong, Zhenqi Liao, Chenglin Yang, Xinwei Deng, Zhijun Li and Junliang Fan