Agricultural Water Management

1976 - 2026

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Volume 327, issue C, 2026

Quantifying resilience of major field crops to waterlogging during vegetative and reproductive stages

Bikash Adhikari, Lekshmy V. Sankarapillai, Jagmandeep Dhillon, Krishna N. Reddy, K. Raja Reddy and Raju Bheemanahalli

Modeling evapotranspiration from rice paddies with variable water depths

Jing Wang, Jingwei Wu, Yao Xiao, Yanchao Zhao, Qisen Zhang, Dingguo Jiang and Zhiwu Liu

Irrigation-induced changes in rhizosphere and bulk soil properties shape microbial communities and functions in a winter wheat–summer maize system

Yufan Lin, Xiaolin Yang, Tiegui Nan, Taisheng Du, Shaozhong Kang, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl and Kadambot H.M. Siddique

Using hedgerow-grass ditch systems in controlling nitrogen and phosphorus losses in citrus orchards under varying rainfall

Xinmei Zhao, Tianyang Li, Hongye Zhu, Chi Wang, Hui Yan, Lan Song, Yonghao Li, Cheng Zeng and Binghui He

Impacts of land use patterns on seasonal water quality across spatial scales and river grades in the large-scale Yellow River Basin

Yongge Zang, Hong Yu, Yameng Li, Huihui Liu and Jiajun Fu

Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of artificial water replenishment in chinese crop rotation systems over two decades

Zihua Liu, Jiaqi Yao, Lijun Lu, Min Chen, Xinhui Ji, Xuan Wang, Xiangyu Li and Yongqiang Cao

Photosynthetic traits and canopy-level thermal imaging to assess plant-water relations in two apple cultivars under waterlogging and recovery conditions

Narayan Bhusal, Louis Santiago, Byeong-Ho Choi, In Hee Park, Sanghak Jeong, Su-Gon Han and Tae-Myung Yoon

Predictive drivers and transferability of multi-scale machine learning based crop yield prediction under drought across European and Asian climates

Hempushpa Sahu, Pradeep Kumar Garg, Saurabh Vijay and Antara Dasgupta

Multivariate and correlation analysis of cadmium contamination in the food chain across spatio-temporal scales

Hamid Raza, Mukkram Ali Tahir, Noor Us Sabah, Rabia Iftikhar, Muhammad Rashid, Abdulrahman A. Alatar and Mohammad Faisal

Comprehensive insights into integrated rice-based co-culture systems in the top five rice-producing countries enhancing productivity and smallholder livelihoods

Juli Enita Sinaga, Debora D.M. Ambarita, Betty Natalie Fitriatin and Tualar Simarmata

Seed mixture of oat and common vetch improved yields and water productivity by belowground root niche complementarity

Qianhu Ma, Yuying Shen and Zikui Wang

Inventories of toxic elements in soil-rice systems in the main rice cultivated regions in China

Xinyu Cai, Zhengjia He, Yiru Zhao, Kehan Wang, Hui Li, Lijin Guo, Anni Wei and Songliang Wang

Advancing hydrological modeling in the Mediterranean: Multi-objective calibration of the SWAT+ model using open-source data and tools

Mohammed Mouad Mliyeh, Mourad Aqnouy, Ismail Bouizrou, Marouane Laaraj, Aqil Tariq, Mahmoud Zemzami, Lahcen Benaabidate and Hesham El-Askary

Detecting water in agricultural landscapes from remote sensing imagery: Methodological choices, sensor constraints and performance metrics

D.A. Merchán, J.M. Manzano and C. Ierardi

Investment trends and evaluation gaps in rainwater harvesting in Sub-Saharan African drylands

Kunwar K. Singh, Maxwell Kleinhans, Katherine Markham, Foster Mensah, Ariel BenYishay and Julius Adewopo

A novel 3D hazard assessment framework for dry-to-wet abrupt alternation events and its application in the Yangtze River Basin, China

Zhanrui Huang, Zhihua Pan, Xiao Chen, Na Huang, Riping Gao, Jingyu Men, Pengshuai Bi, Changlin Wu, Fangxiao Zhang, Yijia Yao and Enze Gao

Doubling gains, halting losses: Subsurface drip irrigation reshapes wheat-maize system sustainability

Md Razzab Ali, Yucui Zhang, Gong Cheng, Fan Liu, Hongjun Li, Huaihui Li, Xiaojun Dou, Wei Yang and Yanjun Shen

Impact of spatial optimization scale on crop planting patterns and outcomes: A case study of the Hetao Irrigation District

Bing Yu, Dongyang Ren, Jiaye Li and Songhao Shang

Controlled irrigation and straw-decomposing microbial inoculant mitigate CH4 emissions and increase rice yield in straw return mollisols of paddy fields

Sicheng Du, Peng Chen, Guangzhi Lin, Zhongxue Zhang, Jian Song, Sheng Guan, Yu Han, Mingxu Deng, Ming Liu, Zhijuan Qi, Guangbin Zhang and Xiaoyuan Yan

Construction and optimization of a stage-specific variable-parameter surface electromagnetic scattering model for winter wheat

Daowei Wang, Pei Cao and Wenting Han

Field-scale root-zone soil moisture mapping in sandy soils with L-band radiometry and hybrid radiative transfer – machine learning modeling

Nikhil Raj Deep, Ebrahim Babaeian, Lakesh Sharma, Sabine Grunwald and Rafael Muñoz-Carpena

Can soil moisture and nutrient monitoring tools contribute to climate-smart smallholder irrigation? A modelling approach in Zimbabwe

Martin Moyo, Folorunso M. Akinseye, Andre van Rooyen, Henning Bjornlund, Karen Parry, Jamie Pittock, Peter Ramshaw, Angeline Mujeyi, Thabani Dube and Farayi Dube

Sustainability assessment of plastic mulching for wheat production in dry semi-humid areas: An integrated DNDC-machine learning approach

Xiaoli Liu, Xiaoqun Yan, Wenchao Zhen and Yandong Wang

Daily-scale gridded analysis of spatiotemporal characteristics in agricultural drought events across winter wheat growth stages in the Huang–Huai–Hai Plain, China

Yunqian Wang, Baofu Li, Min Luo, Hao Guo, Xiangchen Meng and Zhaodan Cao

Melatonin-mediated mitigation of waterlogging stress in waxy maize: A time-dependent regulation of root architecture, dry matter partitioning and yield

Yanyan Zhang, Jianing Lv, Chao Huang, Xuchen Liu, Haijia Zhou, Ying Li and Zhandong Liu

Simulation the effects of water resource regulation from the perspective of the water-energy-food-ecology nexus: A case study of Yulin city

Jiaqi Sun, Xiaojun Wang, Jianyun Zhang, Xu Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Pengfei Bai, Bo Bi, Congjian Sun, Dazhi Li and Lei Wu

System design shapes resource use efficiency and yield trade-offs in lettuce-freshwater prawn aquaponics

Seunghyun Choi, Chungkeun Lee, Joshua T. Harvey, Asmita Nagila and Daniel I. Leskovar

Optimizing deficit irrigation and fertilization at growth stages to improve citrus yield, fruit quality, and water-fertilizer productivity in semi-arid Southwest China

Fei Chen, Shunsheng Zheng, Ningbo Cui, Zhihui Wang, Shouzheng Jiang, Mingdong Tan, Hongping Li, Lu Zhao and Chunwei Liu

A dynamic water-energy-food-carbon nexus to reveal synergies, trade-offs, and pathways for dryland sustainability

Feifei Han, Hongbo Ling, Aihua Long, Jingshan Yu, Junjie Yan, Shengzhi Huang, Aijun Guo, Bin Guo and Mingjiang Deng

Spatial-temporal patterns of wheat growth model parameter sensitivity and strategies for region-adaptive calibration and management

Xinlong Li, Zhiduo Dong, Jia Gao, Boyue Zhang, Fengli Jiao, Panpan Guo, Shichao Chen, Taisheng Du, Shaozhong Kang and Risheng Ding

Regulated deficit irrigation based on plant water status and Agrivoltaic systems as possible improvements on water resources management in tomato

Carlota Bernal-Basurco, Marta Sánchez-Piñero, Ana Centeno, María José Martín-Palomo, Esther Hernández-Montes, Pedro Castro-Valdecantos, Ruben Moratiel, Jesús D. Peco, Alfonso Moriana, David Pérez-López and Mireia Corell

Daily estimation of Water–Salt–Carbon coordination in high-standard cotton fields using uav and PlanetScope satellite image fusion

Jinming Zhang, Jianli Ding, Jiangtao Li, Zihan Zhang, Jinjie Wang and Xiangyu Ge

Multidimensional sustainability assessment of rice cultivation systems in cold regions: Trade-offs and synergies among water, carbon, energy, and economic footprints

Dongsheng Gai, Boting Shi, Haipeng Li, Yueyue Liu, Xiwen Shao, Yanqiu Geng, Liying Guo and Qiang Zhang

Integrating biophysical models and remote sensing to evaluate irrigation practices in four global hubs

Nikolas Galli, Francesco Capone, Jacopo Dari, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Maria Cristina Rulli, Clément Abergel, Carla Saltalippi, Renato Morbidelli and Luca Brocca

The effect of project selection strategy on irrigation-system upgrade program cost: The cost of not quantifying conservation

Dylan R. Harp, Eleanor A. Bash, Anthony S. Orlando, Tim Wigington and David Primozich

Bacillus subtilis enhances the drought resistance of plants through the aggregation of rhizosphere microbiota mediated by root exudates

Peiqi Ren, Beibei Zhou, Yanpeng Bi, Xiaopeng Chen and Shaoxiong Yao

Attribution of runoff changes in the semi-arid Xiliao River Basin – A Budyko-elasticity approach to deconstructing compound climate and human impacts

Xiangzhao Yan, Yanwei Zhao, Xiong Zhou, Weiqi Xiang, Yongpeng Chen and Jiaqi Chen

Spatio-temporal inversion of saline-alkali land in the oasis and desert region of the Hexi Corridor by fusing measured and remote sensing spectra

Lei Zhang, Xia Jia, Yonghua Zhao, Qi Mu, Lishan Shan and Chengwu Chai

Optimization of water and fertilizer management for apple (Malus pumila mill.) in the sandy regions of southern Xinjiang under organic fertilizer based on entropy weight-TOPSIS comprehensive evaluation

Xiaoxian Duan, Quanjiu Wang, Weiyi Mu, Lijun Su, Changkun Ma and Yan Sun

Salt content retrieval in on leaf texture and color using machine learning-driven

Bo Gao, Lishu Wang, Shuai He, Long Wang and Yanhui Jia

Water-yield relationships for chickpea under different irrigation regimes in Gezira Scheme, Sudan

Maie Kabbashi Alla Jabow, Mahasin Ali Mohamed and Mohie El Din Omar

Saline-alkali soil amelioration in China: A systematic review and evidence synthesis

Qinghui Meng, Congzhi Zhang, Jinhua Zhao, Jiabao Zhang, Yunxuan Lu and Fenwu Liu

Volume 326, issue C, 2026

Out-scaling apparent conductivity from ground acquired electromagnetic induction using satellite reflectance data to assess regional salinity and waterlogging

Mark R. Glover, Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia, Debolina Sarkar, Manoj Kumar Nanda, Yingying Yu, Mohammed Mainuddin, Mustafa Kamal Shahadat, Md. Maniruzzaman, Khokan Kumer Sarker, Md. Belal Hossain, Argha Ghosh, Priya Lal Chandra Paul, Sukanta Kumar Sarangi, Sukamal Sarkar, Edward G. Barrett-Lennard and Donald S. Gaydon

Mapping winter irrigation areas and timing in arid regions using time series remote sensing data

Shaofeng Yan, Guilin Liu, Jinwei Dong, Zhuojian Wen, Xueru Qiu and Dacheng Li

Reducing nitrogen use under optimal irrigation and planting date can sustain sugarcane yield and gross margin under climate change

Shijin Yao, Bin Wang, De Li Liu, Fangzheng Chen, Siyi Li, Keyu Xiang, Jianqiang He, Mingxia Huang, Meichen Feng and Qiang Yu

Performance of combined irrigation–fertilization strategies under variable inflow and cutoff conditions in border irrigation systems

Mohamed Khaled Salahou, Xiaoyuan Chen and Yupeng Zhang

Development and testing of a DRAINMOD-based decision-support tool for designing and evaluating saturated buffers

Yousef Abdalaal, Ehsan Ghane, Josué Kpodo, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Mohamed A. Youssef, Anamelechi Falasy, Manal Askar, Sheela Katuwal, Gabriel M. Johnson, Natalia Rogovska and Thomas M. Isenhart

Prolonged drought strongly suppresses temperate grasslands actual evapotranspiration: Insights from eddy covariance observations upscaling

Lexin Ma, Zhi Chen, Quanhong Lin, Tianxiang Hao, Meng Yang, Jianxing Zhu, Linfei Yu, Mingyu Sun, Yong Lin, Tao Li, Fubo Yu, Zongxu Yu, Jiwen Li and Guirui Yu

Drip irrigation threatens the security of farmland shelterbelts in arid and semi-arid regions

Chen Zhang, Yingchun Ge, Xiaobin Li, Tao Che, Shaokun Wang and Salman Zare

Simulating microplastic transport in unsaturated soil using HYDRUS-1D

Rozita Soltani Tehrani, Xiaomei Yang and Jos van Dam

The effects of aerated irrigation on crop yield and fruit quality: A meta-analysis

Shaobo Wang, Yingji Lian, Hongwei Pan, Muhammad Zain, Jiankun Ge and Hongjun Lei

Two independent water balance approaches demonstrate extensive use of groundwater by rainfed crops

Adam P. Schreiner-McGraw and Claire Baffaut

Optimized water and nitrogen management improves photosynthesis, yield, and resource use efficiency of maize under mulched drip irrigation

Yi Fan, Yuyi Zhang, Zixiang Wang, Ying Li, Yang Wang, Hejing Tang, Zhandong Liu and Xingpeng Wang

Subsoiling increases soil carbon and wheat yields by altering the deep soil and the hydrolase to oxidase ratio under saline water irrigation

Fengli Jiao, Zhiduo Dong, Jingxiang Hou, Jia Gao, Xinlong Li, Shaozhong Kang, Taisheng Du, Ling Tong, Jian Kang, Wanli Xu, Guangmu Tang and Risheng Ding

Multi-objective water-nitrogen regime optimization to enhance yield, quality and productivity of drip-fertigated greenhouse tomato in northwest China

Hanlong Feng, Ahmed Elsayed Abdelghany, Mahmood Hemat, Zhijun Li and Junliang Fan

Soil water and salt distribution and their controlling factors under mulched drip irrigation: A meta-analysis

Shiqi Wang, Jinbiao Liu, Yalan Liu and Changyan Tian

Improving actual evapotranspiration estimation under water stress by fusing solar-induced fluorescence, photochemical reflectance index, and interpretable deep learning models

Yao Li, Jiayu Wu, Xuegui Zhang, Xiaobo Gu, Jiatun Xu, Huanjie Cai and Xiongbiao Peng

Effect of irrigation uniformity on the delineation of homogeneous zones in a pear orchard

L. Bonzi, M. Carrara, F. Hamouda, S. Marasco, R. Massai, À. Puig-Sirera, D. Remorini and G. Rallo

Modeling nitrogen fluxes in a tile-drained cropping system in the Midwest using an enhanced SWAT model

Muhammad Rizwan Shahid, Junyu Qi, Bryan D. Emmett, Robert W. Malone, Natalia Rogovska, O’Brien, Peter L., John L. Kovar, Anna Radke, Gary W. Feyereisen, Kevin W. King, Mark Williams, Daniel Moriasi and Michael J. Castellano

Timescale-dependent impacts of extreme precipitation on watershed nutrient removal: Insights from five decades (1970–2022)

Ying Xing, Yuxian Li, Jiahui Zhu, Shuai Wang and Feifei Dong

A novel variable-rate drip irrigation system to improve water use of vegetable crops in semiarid conditions

M. Morcillo, M.A. Moreno, R. Ballesteros and J.F. Ortega

Crop irrigation with treated wastewater in sustainable agriculture: Investigating farmer behavior

Yi-Jia Wang, Jifeng Pan, Qiang Fu, Naihui Wang, Mo Li and George Q. Huang

Resistance optimization and applicability of the TSEB model in desert–oasis areas

Shuo Lun, Tingxi Liu, Yongzhi Bao, Lina Hao, Limin Duan, Wei Zhang, Simin Zhang, Yiran Zhang, V.P. Singh and Dongmin Wang

Determination of irrigation water use from multiple soil moisture observations at a fine spatial resolution: Preferred model optimization and fusion strategy

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, Xiaoning Song and Zhao-Liang Li

Drought-flood abrupt alternation in the Huaibei plain and its impacts on crops

Chenhui Liang, Yonghua Zhu, Haishen Lü, Yuxin Huang, Ruixin Xiao, Yiding Ding, Yiling Yao, Yuxuan Li, Yixuan Li, Ke Pei and Tianrun Gao

Selection basis of forage sorghum production system: Assessment of the effects of cutting period and irrigation amount on productivity and resource efficiency

Chunyan Bai, Bo Sun, Fan Feng, Shayan Ma, Jian Lan, Jianqiang Deng and Le Mu

Identification of critical soil moisture thresholds and the water–energy regulation mechanisms in semi-arid sand dune–meadow ecosystems

Simin Zhang, Limin Duan, Yongzhi Bao, Lina Hao, Xin Tong, V.P. Singh and Tingxi Liu

Causation, evolution, and multi-level propagation from meteorological to agricultural drought in Inner Mongolia

Mengmeng Zhang, Enliang Guo, Yongfang Wang, Ha Si, Xiangqian Li, Yao Kang, Xiling Gu, Pengqi Zhao, Heng Xu, Shuixia Zhao and Shengjie Cui

Evaluating evaporation losses from agricultural ponds with shelter net covers by integrated Dalton model

Wendi Wang, Francesco Bettella, D’Agostino, Vincenzo and Paolo Tarolli

Simulation of soil hydrothermal condition and potato growth under different colored plastic film mulch in an arid region

Youliang Zhang, Qianyun Deng, Zhiming Qi, Fengxin Wang, Matthew Sima, Chunli Hua, Qiu Luo and Shaoyuan Feng

Using the AquaCrop model for maize in arid water deficient conditions: A new version for improved accuracy when adopting a varied normalized water productivity

Zahra Jahandideh, Shahrokh Zand-Parsa, Ali Reza Sepaskhah, Paula Paredes and Luis S. Pereira

Corrigendum to “AI-driven decision support system enhances productivity, water use efficiency, and soil sustainability of strategic crops in sandy soils” [Agric. Water Manag. 325 (2026) 1–9/110198]

Eman I.R. Emara, Abdullateef M. Al-SAEED and Lamy M.M. Hamed

Optimization study on diagnostic methods for winter wheat water stress using UAV-borne thermal infrared imagery

Shou-Chen Ma, Zhen-Hao Gao, Jia-Ju Dong and Shou-Tian Ma

Effects of co-ridge planting on soil water distribution characteristics and interspecific reciprocal utilization in maize intercropping with peanut

Yingchao Wang, Jiangtao Wang, Na Liang, Ling Liu, Guozhan Fu, Tangyuan Ning and Nianyuan Jiao

Assessment of deficit irrigation impacts on water productivity and crop yield in the arid yellow river Basin using the SWAT model

Haoze Zhang, Wenzhi Zeng, Haoyu Wang, Yi Liu and Chang Ao

Modeling salinity and sodicity risks under long-term irrigation with medium salinity water: Kinneret catchment as a case study

Avishag Amouyal, Oren Reichmann and M. Iggy Litaor

Stage-targeted micro-supplemental irrigation at jointing and tasseling enhances sorghum yield and nitrogen uptake by optimizing root morphology in semi-arid dryland systems

Lintao Liu, Hongxia Cao, Guoteng Du and Jiaxuan Liu

Assessing the mitigation effects of irrigation methods on a record-breaking drought: Crop Yield and Economic Loss in Shaanxi Province, China

Hao Chen, Xinhao Li, Bate Zuo, Ziji Lv, Jiaqi Chen, Jiaxi Wang, Wenyan Ge, Shangyu Shi, Jianqiao Han, Jinshi Jian and Fei Wang

Effects of biochar application and irrigation system on gregate and soil respiration

Jiaping Liang, Jun Yang, Na Li and Qiliang Yang