Agricultural Water Management

1976 - 2026

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Volume 335, issue C, 2026

Water–nitrogen synergy driven by subsoiling increases post–anthesis resource uptake and wheat productivity on the Loess Plateau

Jun Xing, Kai Zhang, Peng Zhou, Zhaoji Wang, Yuzhong Cheng, Yan Shi, Ai Hu, Xiaofen Li, Pengcheng Ding, Linghong Li, Xuyang Han, Wen Lin, Zhiqiang Gao, Aixia Ren and Min Sun

Estimating reference evapotranspiration using a BiLSTM model incorporating spatiotemporal features in Southwestern China

Zongyang Li, Zhengxin Zhao, Liwen Xing, Ningbo Cui, Huanjie Cai, Zongjun Wu and Shenglin Wen

Global crop production responses to climate-driven drought under future warming

Qinghua Guo and Wenliang Wu

Inverse modeling and coupled analysis of soil moisture content and organic carbon in oasis areas of arid regions

Zihan Zhang, Jinjie Wang, Jianli Ding, Jinming Zhang, Liya Shi and Xiangyu Ge

The world is being fed at the expense of nature: A remote sensing based global assessment from 2000 to 2019

Abdur Rahim Safi, Poolad Karimi and Charlotte de Fraiture

ORYZA model development for soil organic carbon dynamics and greenhouse gas emissions: Module description and sensitivity analysis

Tao Li, Emmali A. Manalo, Hannah W. Jose, Olivyn R. Angeles, Ando M. Radanielson and Ligia B. Azevedo

Soil CO2 emissions pulse and water-carbon regulation effect of greenhouse tomato after irrigation under irrigation-biochar combinations application

Wenju Zhao, Yixuan Hu, You Wu, Haiying Yu and Changquan Zhou

Quantifying evaporation depth from on-farm storages using water-level observations

Jia Xu, Andrew W. Western, Dongryeol Ryu and Michael Scobie

Identification of phenology-aligned sensitive windows to extreme-rainfall events for maize in north China Plain and actionable irrigation–drainage triggers

Lushuang Zhang, Changfeng Jing, Ziyi Zhou and Hong Wan

Nitrogen-loss reduction efficiencies of field–ditch–pond systems under different water management strategies in rice-growing regions of China

Weidong Li, Weijia Wen, Qinjing Zhang, Liang Zhang, Junyi Cen, Hongbin Liu, Shuhe Ruan, Sisi Li, Wangzheng Shen, Xiaobin Cai, Lei Wu and Yanhua Zhuang

Hazard- vs. Risk-based paradigms in agricultural water reuse: A global comparative analysis of regulatory frameworks

Ignacio Gómez-Lucena, Nassim Ait-Mouheb, Emilio Camacho and Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Díaz

Accurate diagnosis of soil moisture and canopy water content in citrus orchards based on synergistic multi-source remote sensing

Zongjun Wu, Bin Zhu, Ningbo Cui, Wei Zhao, Yanjun Wang, Liwen Xing, Quanshan Liu, Shenglin Wen and Bihang Fan

Responses of crop yield and water productivity to stage-specific moisture anomalies under different precipitation scenarios

Zuwei Fan, Xiongzhan Deng, Ziqi Li, Yuting Zheng, Yue Luo, Yuanquan Chen and Peng Sui

Oxygen nanobubble drip irrigation differentially regulates yield, ascorbate accumulation, and flavor quality in watermelon

Naikun Kuang, Jing He, Yunpeng Zhou, Yan Shen, Kai Zhang and Yunkai Li

Rainfall-driven pathway switching reorganizes nitrate transport and transformation in a terrace-ditch-pond system

Longfei Ma, Yuan Niu, Zian Liu, Jun Wang, Jia Yu and Yali Wu

The hydraulic mechanism and failure threshold for the decline of salt-blocking capacity of buried interlayers in saline-alkali soil

Sihong Lei, Xiaoxu Jia, Xiaofan Yang, Lidong Ren, Chunlei Zhao and Shao, Ming’an

AIDspat: Introduction of a model framework to estimate spatio-temporal agricultural irrigation demands – A study area in Germany

Jacob Jeff Bernhardt, Franziska Potts, Jan Bug, Maximilian Zinnbauer, Max Eysholdt and Jochen Hack

Subsurface drainage alleviates salt-affected soil constraints and improves soil fertility through altering physical and hydraulic properties in the Hetao Irrigation District, China

Meng Wei, Mengjie Qiao, Xiaopeng Li, Jiabao Zhang, Xiangping Wang, Can Wang and Jianli Liu

Integrating global crop models with knowledge graphs: Evolution, comparison, and future directions

Xuewen Gong, Wei Zeng, Yanbin Li, Tianli Ren, Yu Li, Jiankun Ge and Rangjian Qiu

Bio-organic fertilizer coupled with moderate deficit irrigation optimizes cotton root system architecture and enhances salt tolerance via rhizosphere amelioration in arid saline-sodic soils

Qi Xu, Jiayi Lu, Changkun Ma, Quanjiu Wang and Mingjiang Deng

Practical irrigation scheduling at the sub-field scale: Comparing OpenET and capacitance soil moisture sensors against a TSEB reference in dry edible beans

Shuhua Xie, Angie Gradiz, Xin Qiao, Joseph Oboamah, Wei-zhen Liang, Jun Wang and PoNien Su

Treated wastewater irrigation supports canola (Brassica napus L.) production in arid agroecosystems without exceeding soil salinity limits

Jhaman Das Suthar, Girisha K. Ganjegunte, Rahmatullah Hashimi, April L. Ulery, Vijayasatya N. Chaganti, Qingwu Xue, Rajan K. Shrestha, Santosh S. Palmate, Samuel D. Zapata and Saurav Kumar

Identifying eco-optimal nitrogen and irrigation management for wheat production in the North China Plain

Junming Liu, Fangzhi Duan, Zhuanyun Si, Han Fu, Huijie Li, Xiulu Sun, Tao Zhou, Hongchen Li, Sunusi Amin Abubakar, Zhandong Liu and Bingcheng Si

Climate-adjusted sequence learning reveals atmospheric-demand transitions in agricultural water–heat buffering

Qifeng Gui, Pan Li, Jingui Wei, Hailong Qiu, Lianhao Zhao, Pingxing Wan, Haoran Sun and Wen Yin

Future-proofing raised bed irrigation for rabi maize using sensor-based soil moisture monitoring, AquaCrop modeling, and CMIP6-based climate projections in Bangladesh

Md Touhidul Islam, Akash,, Mst Rimi Khatun, Nusrat Jahan, Azizul Hakim, Ajoy Kumar Saha, Shaikh Abdullah Al Mamun Hossain, Mohammed Mizanur Rahman and A.K.M. Adham

Differences in compound drought–heatwave events between the atmosphere and soil during the growing season in the Huai River Basin: Insights from atmospheric evapotranspiration demand and surface energy distribution

Dongxiang Ma, Haishen Lü, Yonghua Zhu, Yinghao Fu, Yiling Yao, Yiding Ding, Siqing Yang and Zhaohua Ge

Environmental drivers and machine-learning analysis of grapevine sap flow on hilly slopes in Southwest China

Mengyao Tian, Rongfei Zhang, Chengcheng Yang, Qing Wang, Liangliang Xu and Zhuping Sheng

Optimizing soil moisture-triggered automated irrigation and nitrogen management in wheat–maize systems using RZWQM2

Md Razzab Ali, Yucui Zhang, Md Raseduzzaman, Xiaojun Dou, Yang Yanmin, Haonan Sun, Guo Ying and Yanjun Shen

Synergistic regulation of soil water and salt through mud blanket mulching and raised fields improves rainfed winter wheat yield on coastal saline-alkali land

Li Dai, Yuxuan Dong, Longjin Wang, Yakun Tian, Dongliang Cui, Quanfeng Liu, Yehan Fu, Yixuan Lin, Jiayue Dai, Zeping Shi, Menghan Jia, Yunzhou Qiao and Baodi Dong

Modified daily standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index based on influence attenuation of water surplus and deficit

Wei Pei, Tonglin Fang, Shaoting Liu, Lei Hao, Hui Liu, Tianxiao Li and Qiang Fu

A hybrid AquaCrop–XGBoost framework for climate-smart irrigation and crop yield resilience under CMIP6 scenarios in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia

Habtamu Abay Eshetie, Tena Alamirew, Abebech Abera and Dejene Sahlu

Dynamic Bayesian modeling and optimization of agricultural water–energy–food–carbon systems under resource constraints: Evidence from the North China Plain

Hanbing Li, Rongqin Zhao, Liangang Xiao, Zhixiang Xie, Weiyi Xu, Wei Shan, Xinyuan Liang and Xiaobin Jin

Does irrigation access buffer yield losses under hydrological shocks? Plot-level evidence from rice-based farming systems

Zhiyuan Zhu and Yongzhong Feng

Diagnosing gridded relative food-provision shortfall under compound drought signals and cropland-background conditions in a humid-subtropical drought corridor

Qianjun Wei, Jie Tan, Siting Zhan, Xinying Yang, Jingfeng Xiao and De Yu

Effects of different thinning intensities on Pinus tabuliformis transpiration and forest-water relations in the Loess Plateau of China

Shengnan Chen, Yunqiang Wang and Wei Wei

Water-yield supply–demand relationships in Northwest China three water lines region: An InVEST–glacier assessment

Yingying Gai, Shuhong Mo, Peng Li, Mingjiang Deng, Hui Sun and Tao Zhou

Coupling root-zone osmotic monitoring with dynamic behavioral tariffs: A spatiotemporal eco-hydroeconomic allocation framework for salinity mitigation and groundwater resilience

Yaojie Zhang, Wen Liu, Jianjun Li and Peiyu Zhu

Integrated crop residue return, film mulching, and irrigation enhance climate resilience of maize production and soil carbon storage in cold regions

Hao Quan, Lihong Wu, Hao Feng, Bin Wang, De Li Liu and Shengzhi Huang

Greenhouse gas emissions from dry direct-seeded and transplanted rice: A comparative analysis under different water regimes in farmers’ rice fields

S.M. Mofijul Islam, Swati Nayak, Muhammad Ashraful Habib, Mohammad Nazrul Islam, Sharif Ahmed, Amaresh Chandel, Stella Salvo, Sankalp Bhosale, V.K. Singh, Bjoern Ole Sander and Md. Rafiqul Islam

Revisiting soil water metrics for predicting N2O emissions across different soil types

Seongmin Park, Jumi Lim, Yelim Park, Jeongeun Yun, Joseph Godwin, Sukhwan Yoon and Hyun Ho Lee

Evaluating drainage operation performance in low-lying rice paddy fields based on rainfall-driven inundation probability in the Cheongmicheon watershed, South Korea

Hyunji Lee, Hakkwan Kim, Seokhyeon Kim, Moon-Seong Kang and Younggu Her

Spatiotemporal patterns of crop water productivity under changing water–salinity conditions in an arid irrigation district of the upper Yellow River basin

Xinyi Li, Xu Xu, Chen Sun, Dongyang Ren and Quanzhong Huang

Corrigendum to “Inverse modeling and coupled analysis of soil moisture content and organic carbon in oasis areas of arid regions” [Agric. Water Manag. 335 (2026) 110710]

Zihan Zhang, Jinjie Wang, Jianli Ding, Jinming Zhang, Liya Shi and Xiangyu Ge

Corrigendum to “Water use efficiency is improved by alternate partial root-zone irrigation of apple in arid northwest China” [Agric. Water Manag. 179 (2017) 184–192]

Shaoqing Du, Shaozhong Kang, Fusheng Li and Taisheng Du

Assessing water use and yield dynamics of high-performing ‘Forelle’ and ‘Packham’s Triumph’ pear orchards under changing climatic conditions in South Africa’s Western Cape Province

S. Dzikiti, J.C. Pienaar, A. Sidzumo, K.J. Ngulube, P. Dangare, E. Crouch, Z. Ntshidi, J.M. Visser, Sje Midgley and W.J. Steyn

A global synthesis of transpiration and evapotranspiration partitioning in apple orchards

Shaoning Cheng, Ying Zhao, Jingxiao Zhang, Yiming Shao and Di Wang

Spatio-temporal characteristics and driving factor identification of precipitation use efficiency: Based on machine learning and SHAP analysis

Shuai Zou, Fanxiang Meng, Ennan Zheng, Tianxiao Li, Gang Li and Mo Li

An integrated diagnosis of agricultural groundwater over-abstraction in a Lake Urmia tributary catchment

Alireza Daneshi, Soraya Yaghobi, Hossein Azadi, Anwar Eziz, Reza Omidipour, Aiding Kornejady, Lichang Yin, Zhenlei Yang, Weili Duan and Marzban Faramarzi

Long-term effects of mulched drip irrigation in arid oasis agriculture: A review of salt removal, soil hydraulic function, and field management

Jibin Cheng, Rui Chen, Zhenhua Wang and Yue Han

Coupled effect of irrigation and nitrogen management strategies on spring potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) productivity, quality, and nitrogen use efficiency under sprinkler irrigation

Varshitha Prasanna, Bibek Acharya, Uday Bhanu Prakash Vaddevolu, Robert Hochmuth, Michael Dukes, Lincoln Zotarelli and Vivek Sharma

Hydraulic barrier induced by long-term mulching shifts water–nitrogen limitation from additive to synergistic in dryland maize: A critical Ks threshold for irrigation and N management

Feng-Yi Li and Gui-Yun Song

Corrigendum to ‘Mild water deficit during maturity reduces crackingrate of greenhouse muskmelon while improving fruit quality’ [Agric. Water Manage. 313 (2025) 109465]

Qimin Xue, Hao Li and Taisheng Du

Combined effect of different irrigation and fertilization scenarios on wheat and barley development and their C-band radar response in a semi-arid region

Nadia Ouaadi, Ayoub Medkour, Jamal El Farkh, Bouchra Ait Hssaine, Emna Ayari, Lahcen Ousayd, Zoubair Rafi and Abdelghani Chehbouni

Evapotranspiration and water use efficiency in a Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantation in Northeast China affected by drought

Xiang Gao, Songyi Pei, Shoujia Sun, Zhipeng Li, Hui Huang, Chongfan Guan and Jinsong Zhang

Dynamic adaptive capacity of coupled agriculture-water systems under Climate Change: Evidence from the Western United States

Hamid Balali, Frank A. Ward, Craig R. Allen, Gholamreza Eslamifar, Mani Rouhi Rad and Alexander Fernald

Crop diversification and rainfed water-risk management: Evidence from smallholder farms in China’s Loess Plateau

Na Yang, Xicheng Cao, Ke Wang, Zhiguo Yang, Jian Wang, Jibao Liang, Ying Wei, Jun Chen, Lihong Yang, Jiancheng Zhang and Zhiyuan Zhu

Stage-specific water-heat mismatches and cumulative risk of extreme hydroclimatic events to double-season and mid-season rice yields in subtropical China

Rouyan Gong, Guangsheng Xiang, Yi Gong, Jiahao Wu, Qihang Liu, Jianjun Fu and Wenjuan Guo

Corrigendum to “Greenhouse gas emissions from dry direct-seeded and transplanted rice: A comparative analysis under different water regimes in farmers’ rice fields” [Agric. Water Manag. 335 (2026) 1–15]

S.M. Mofijul Islam, Swati Nayak, Muhammad Ashraful Habib, Mohammad Nazrul Islam, Sharif Ahmed, Amaresh Chandel, Stella Salvo, Sankalp Bhosale, V.K. Singh, Bjoern Ole Sander and Md. Rafiqul Islam

Understanding soil moisture dynamics and key drivers for single and mixed cover cropping systems using machine learning

Prakriti Bista, Olufemi Adebayo, Huichao Yin, Kenneth C. Carroll and Rajan Ghimire

Energy use, carbon footprint and economic performance of rice production under different straw-returning systems and water-nitrogen management

Mingming Hu, Feng Ding, Zhixin Li, Zhonglin Wang, Biao Li, Zongkui Chen, Zhiyuan Yang, Yongjian Sun and Jun Ma

Economic performance of FAO-56 crop coefficient and Allen & Pereira approaches for irrigation scheduling in super-high-density olive orchards

H. Kerras, M.V. Cuevas, M. Muñoz-Santisteban, J.L. Sánchez-Navarro, J.E. Fernández, J. Frías and F. Alcon

There are profit neutral pathways to reduce phosphorus pollution in the face of increasing fertilizer prices: An open-source model for grass-based cattle farming

Erin S. Sherry and Julia Martin-Ortega

Corrigendum to “Exploring the differences of moisture traceability methods based on MixSIAR model under different nitrogen applications of wheat in the Arid Region of Northwest China” [Agric. Water Manag. 294 (2024) 108716]

Yingbo Liu, Yusen Yuan, Liang Zhang and Taisheng Du

Comparative evaluation of subsurface drip irrigation and conventional flood, sprinkler and surface drip irrigation on soil hydrological and nitrogen cycling, alfalfa productivity and forage quality in arid sandy soils

Yaqi Wang, Qiang Ji, Xiaoke Fu and Chaoyue Feng

Water footprint of globe artichoke: The impact of evaporative canopy-cooling irrigation

Marco Cossu, Maria Teresa Tiloca, Stefania Solinas, Stefano Lupinu, Andrea Cossu, Paola A. Deligios and Luigi Ledda

Contrasting water stress responses of Chardonnay and Sauvignon blanc grapevines: Implications for postveraison irrigation

Felipe Suárez-Vega, Bastián Silva-Gutiérrez, Benjamín Velásquez, Francisco Albornoz, José A. Alcalde, Megan K. Bartlett and Alonso G. Pérez-Donoso

Scenario-based evaluation of nutrient pollution control in agricultural drainage ditch–pond systems using the QUAL2K model

Alhasan Ahmed Aljawzi, Zhonghua Jia and Wan Luo

Enhancing resource efficiency and crop yields through stepwise progress in the Yellow River Basin

Mengxue Li, Yawei Bai, Zhonghao Fu, Dandan Ren, Chuanliang Li and Wenfeng Liu

The effectiveness and distribution efficiency of drainage ditches and ponds as water quality buffers in agricultural landscapes

Z. Jia, Y. Chen, W. Liu, C. Chen and W. Luo

Nitrous oxide emission dynamics and greenhouse gas intensity under mild alternate wetting and drying with nitrogen management in single-rice paddies

Xian Zhang, Xiangyu Xu, Jianing Wang, Lulu Yue, Wanzhu Xi, Shujun Zhao, Dabing Xu, Chenglin Peng, Guohan Si, Wei Liu, Lisha Tong and Jie Song

Coupled surface-groundwater modeling of water stress-triggered irrigation and climate change effects on maize production in Southwestern Kansas

Mahekpreet Kaur and Vaishali Sharda

Calibrating DSSAT–CROPGRO–Tomato to optimize stage-specific deficit irrigation for processing tomato across hydrological year types

Zhecheng Jia, Yue Wen, Yonghui Liang, Hao Jia, Jinzhu Zhang and Zhenhua Wang

Coupled climate–land use change impacts on the water–food nexus using the soil and water assessment tool plus (SWAT+): Application to the Condamine–Balonne River Basin, Australia

Suresh Prasain, Tek Maraseni, Thong Nguyen-Huy, Manish Shrivastab and Rajesh Khatakho

The relationships between the water status of the vine, berry firmness, cracking and sour rot

Komal Kushwaha, Michael Morozov, Yoav Yoktan, Bettina Kochanek, Avi Sadka, Amnon Lichter and Uri Hochberg

Reconciling climate adaptation and food security: Projecting the transition of farming-pastoral ecotone agricultural production suitability under evolving potential agricultural production risk

Xueqi Liu, Zongfeng Chen, Zhengjia Liu and Wenfeng Chi

Supplemental irrigation with saline water for sustainable agricultural management in the North China Plain: A water-salt-energy-food nexus assessment

Jintao Wang, Xuejia Zhang, Yanzhe Hu, Zhihua Zhao, Tong Liu, Wenxin Bian, Xinliang Dong, Xiaojing Liu and Hongyong Sun

Vertical cordon as a climate-adaptive viticultural practice: improving water productivity and oenological potential in the low-yielding minority cultivar Maturana Blanca

M. Puelles, P. Balda, A. Mairata, D. Labarga, F. Martínez de Toda and A. Pou

Linking agricultural drought to compound hot–dry risk: A process-based compound index for crop and water management in the North China Plain

Yi Zou, Ruiyuan Pan, Shaowei Ning, Xiangyu Li, Yuliang Zhou, Xiaoyan Xu, Zihao Zheng, Le Chen, Kaixuan Zhang and Lichang Xu

Corrigendum to “Synergistic regulation of soil water and salt through mud blanket mulching and raised fields improves rainfed winter wheat yield on coastal saline-alkali land” [Agric. Water Manag. 335 (2026) 110745]

Li Dai, Yuxuan Dong, Longjin Wang, Yakun Tian, Dongliang Cui, Quanfeng Liu, Yehan Fu, Yixuan Lin, Jiayue Dai, Zeping Shi, Menghan Jia, Yunzhou Qiao and Baodi Dong

Depth-dependent predictive information in monitored soil moisture profiles: Contrasting roles of persistence, forcing, and HYDRUS-derived states

Quanru Liu, Zongzhi Wang, Ying Bai, Kun Wang, Wenhua Wan, Liang Cheng, Huihua Du, Wenqi Wang, Zhenzhu Yao, Qi Ding and Yongbing Zhang

Effects of nano-copper oxide fertilizer concentration on emitter clogging in reclaimed water drip irrigation systems

Zeyuan Liu, Ruihong Yu, Yan Mo, Changjian Ma, Shen Qu, Xu Yang, Chunwei Su and Yang Xiao

Soil and crop responses to reclaimed water irrigation: A multilevel meta-analysis of moderators and nonlinear water-quality relationships

Qianqian Kong, Hui Wang, Chuang Wen, Junda Du and Pei Guo

Interpretable model responsibility for cropland evapotranspiration across environmental gradients

Hao Chen and Yun Bai

Stage-specific soil moisture regulation improves grain yield and water productivity of drip-irrigated winter wheat: Associations with stem carbohydrate dynamics and grain filling

Pengrui Ai, Ying Zhang, Qiang Wei, Yingjie Ma and Qiuping Fu

Antecedent soil moisture controls meteorological-to-agricultural drought triggering thresholds

Xiaoting Wei, Shengzhi Huang, Dong Liu, Qiang Huang, Qingqing Qi, Zezhong Zhang, Yifei Li, Hao Cui and Mingjiang Deng