Agricultural Water Management

1976 - 2025

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Volume 321, issue C, 2025

Diagnosis of growth status for spring maize under drip irrigation in cold-arid regions using UAV imagery and an RFE-XGBoost model

Mingjie Ma, Jinghua Zhao, Qiuping Fu, Tingrui Yang and Yingying Yuan

Optimizing crop planting structure for balancing water, ecology, and economy in groundwater over-exploited ecologically sensitive regions

Gong Cheng, Zhanling Wu, Xiaonan Guo, Wenshuo Dang, Yanjun Shen, Yongqing Qi, Lijiang Qiao, Jianmei Luo and Yucui Zhang

Multi-indicator comparison in characterizing spatiotemporal patterns of water disasters and corresponding agricultural applications in the Middle-and-lower Yangtze River

Rong Tang and Long Qian

Spatial series approach to estimate soil moisture over wheat fields from a single SAR image

Wentao Han, Mingxu Wang, Yangyang Cao, Zhengdong Luo, Cui Zhou, Jianjun Zhu, Haiqiang Fu and Qinghua Xie

Significance of aerated drip irrigation: A comprehensive review

Hao Li, Abdul Rahim Junejo, David J. Midmore and Shakeel Ahmed Soomro

Probabilistic evaluation of agricultural drought using meteorological drought propagation mechanisms and Vine Copula in a compound drought framework

Jian Song, Han Zhang, Bohang Wu, Sicheng Du, Pengyu Shi and Zhenxiang Xing

Exploring the impact of average water content on wetting bulb expansion from a buried point source

Giorgio Baiamonte, Loris Franco and Girolamo Vaccaro

Assessing the impacts of irrigation and soil types on the water balance and groundwater depletion in an irrigation district of the North China Plain based on a coupled SWAT-MODFLOW model

Chunying Wang, Minghuan Liu, Yuping Han, Shuai Chen, Feifei Zhang, Rangjian Qiu, Defeng Wu, Gengchen Zhang, Fuqiang Wang and Junguo Liu

Enhancement of border irrigation systems: Leveraging simulation–optimization techniques

Mahmood Akbari and Saeed Farahani

Towards sustainability for water-agriculture-energy-ecosystems nexus with interconnected uncertainty: A vine copula-based fixed-mix stochastic programming method

Yanxiao Zhou, Yongping Li, Guohe Huang and Yufei Zhang

Research on the reciprocal feedback relationship and influencing factors between meteorological and agricultural drought in Northeast China

Tianchi Yu, Tianxiao Li, Qiang Fu, Zhaoqiang Zhou, Mo Li, Dong Liu, Renjie Hou and Xuechen Yang

Straw measures attenuate the differences in surface-subsurface flow and sediment yield under four rainfall patterns on red soil sloping farmlands of southern China

Wen Dengchun, Liu Yaojun, Li Taoxi, Sun Gang, Liu Liqian and Duan Jian

Optimizing root zone environment to enhance technology stability of “dry sowing and wet emergence” in cotton fields of southern Xinjiang, China

Shuo Wang, Zhenhua Wang, Yungang Bai, Jianghui Zhang and Zheng Fang

Modeling optimal nitrogen application rate and placement for maximizing wheat yield in a semi-arid environment using APSIM

Jiade Yin, Jinyu Liang, Huizhi Hou, Mingsheng Ma, Yanjie Fang, Yanlan Liu, Hongli Wang and Kangning Lei

Effects of ridge-furrow mulching system and limited supplementary irrigation on soil microbial community structure, function and carbon emissions

Yueyue Xu, Xian Liu, Zeyu Liu, Ting Pan, Fu Chen, Juanling Wang and Xuefang Huang

Optimization of cropping structure of staple crops and benefit evaluation based on carbon-water footprint in the black soil region of Northeast China

Huiye Wang, Renwei Chen, Jing Wang, Hong Yin, Liang He, Puyu Feng, Mingxia Huang, Yang Li and Chao You

Development of a CNN classifier with XAI to detect interpretable water stress in sweet potato using RGB images

Soo Been Cho, Ji Won Choi, Mohamad Soleh Hidayat, Jung-Il Cho, Hoonsoo Lee, Byoung-Kwan Cho and Geonwoo Kim

Recycling nutrients: The promise and perils of wastewater use in global and Brazilian agriculture

Fernando Rodrigues-Silva, Daniel A.S. Rodrigues, Pâmela B. Vilela, Rafael Kopschitz Xavier Bastos, Niels O.G. Jørgensen, Jeppe Lund Nielsen, Louise Schlüter, Maria Clara V.M. Starling and Camila C. Amorim

Comprehensive drought detection, spatiotemporal variations, and attribution across different agricultural climate zones in Eastern China using a copula-based drought index

Yiwen Ma, Xuan Yu, Maofen Li, Jiajian Huang, Hailiang Li and Tianjiao Zhong

Mechanisms by which irrigation regimes influence soil water deep percolation

Jingkai Cui, Qingming Wang, Kuan Liu, Jiaqi Zhai and Yong Zhao

Wastewater irrigation elevates chromium uptake in cereal crops: Bioaccumulation dynamics and carcinogenic risk assessment in a semi-arid agroecosystems

Shahzad Akhtar, Muhammad Iftikhar Hussain, Zafar Iqbal Khan, Tahira Akhtar, Ahmed Muneeb, Asghar Khan, Kafeel Ahmad, Saddam Hussain, Safdar Bashir, Shafaqat Ali, Mohammad Faisal and Abdulrahman A. Alatar

Effects of irrigation management on soil water-heat-salinity dynamics and water productivity of winter jujube in saline-alkaline soils under a plastic-shed system

Xiaoqiang Liu, Fuquan Lv, Shengzhao Pei, Yunfang Mu, Junliang Fan, Shuai He, Fucang Zhang and Feihu Yin

Biochar and microorganisms combined enhance crop growth and soil properties: Evidence from meta-analysis

Shuzhen Song, Kaiming Ren, Wei Zhang and Peng Song

Multi-objective optimization of cropping structures and irrigation strategies for sustainable agricultural development in arid regions

Xuehui Gao, Guopeng Qin, Feihu Yin, Jian Liu, Haixia Lin, YueWen,, Zhen Wang, Tehseen Javed, Jinzhu Zhang and Zhenhua Wang

Dynamic and flexible climate-adaptive long-term planning in irrigated-agriculture

Ambili G. Kamalamma, Mukand S. Babel and Mohanasundaram Shanmugam

Enhancing the crop coefficient method to support real-time irrigation scheduling of a super-high-density olive orchard

M. Muñoz-Santisteban, J.E. Fernández, L.F. Pérez-Romero, A. Montero, M.V. Cuevas and P. Paredes

Efficiency of agricultural systems in Morocco: A meta-frontier analysis of resource use and water management

Nour Nsiri, Georgios Kleftodimos and Sophie Drogué

Performance of disc filters as affected by the use of mixed fertilizers supplying major nutrients during drip irrigation

Chang Lv, Lixing Zhang, Rao Liu, He Wang, Wenquan Niu, Fei Mu, Menglong Wu, Junting You and Siying Huang

Irrigation strategies for upland rice cultivars in Brazil: Physiological responses and agronomic performance

Carlos Alberto Quiloango-Chimarro, Rubens Duarte Coelho, Alice da Silva Gundim, Jéfferson de Oliveira Costa, Tainá Ferreira da Rocha and Alexandre Bryan Heinemann

Rice and Azolla co-cultivation: An ancient nature-based solution for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and increasing rice yield

Wei Yang, Tiantian Miao, Huan Liu, Jiangwen Nie, Bo Zhu, Zhangyong Liu, Li, Yu’e, Shen Yuan, Yao Huang, Xiaobo Qin, Muhammad Yousaf and Bin Wang

Evaluation of the effects of dynamic pressure and emitter type on clogging in drip irrigation systems

Shaobo Xing, Kexin Du, Ningning Liu, Miao Li, Yue Wen, Luis Juana, Raúl Sánchez, Jinzhu Zhang and Zhenhua Wang

Drought-resistant wheat variety shapes soil fungal communities, enhancing nitrogen use efficiency under drought stress

Leyan Zhang, Jie Yang, Xin Wang, Jianheng Zhang, Jiaxin Xue, Guiyan Wang and Hongling Qin

Synergistic regulation of humic acid and aeration: Enhancing yield of processing tomato by improving soil environment under water-saving mulched drip irrigation

Jiaying Ma, Rui Chen, Yue Wen, Jinzhu Zhang, Feihu Yin, Zhanli Ma, Jiliang Zheng and Zhenhua Wang

Global sensitivity analysis of STICS model in simulating winter wheat under various nitrogen and water management

Shuaijie Shen, Axiang Zheng, Datong Zhang, Matthew Tom Harrison, Jørgen Eivind Olesen, Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei, Ke Liu, Pengpeng Zhang, Wenjie Li, Jun Zou, Zechen Wang, Zhenwei Song, Wen Yin, Haotian Chen and Xiaogang Yin

Modelling phosphorus and potassium dynamics in drip-irrigated potato systems using coupled agro-hydrological model

Meisam Rezaei, Kambiz Bazargan, Karim Shahbazi, Mostafa Marzi and Meysam Cheraghi

Applicability, scope, and threshold determination of the cotton water stress characterization index: Prediction based on machine learning algorithms and validated by field experiments

Hang Wang, Wenting Qi, Xiaopeng Ma, Jiandong Wang and Chuanjuan Wang

Agricultural drought forecasting using remote sensing: A hybrid modeling framework by integrating wavelet transformation and machine learning techniques

Muhammad Zubair, Zeeshan Zafar, Shenjun Yao, Zhongyang Guo, Adeel Ahmad Nadeem and Shah Fahd

Global trends and research hotspots on the improvement of saline soil: Insights from bibliometric analysis

Zhonghong Li and Xianhong Li

Decoding water resource carrying capacity assessment through water accounting: A methodological genealogy of traditional approaches and adaptation study of accounting-based solutions

Jiangzhe Han, Zongxing Li, Xiaohong Deng, Yixuan Wang and Huiwenqing Fan

Community engagement in groundwater management to enhance climate resilience: A comparative study of California and Baja California

Mariana Villada-Canela, Amy Quandt, Dalia Marcela Muñoz-Pizza, Andrés Reyna and Vanesa García-Searcy

How does the certification of water rights bring water-saving behaviors to farmers?

Changxin Li, Dongyang Yan and Leshan Jin

Restructuring lucerne planting can improve production and environmental co-benefits in Northwest China

Huiping Zhou, Xiaowei Ding, Jiabao Chen, David Parsons and Liebao Han

Mitigating N leaching and N₂O emissions by combining drip irrigation and reduced fertilization with straw incorporation in greenhouse tomato systems

Le Han, Yiming Zhao, Caroline L. Peacock, Haofeng Lv, Puyu Feng, Shan Lin and Kelin Hu

Multi-objective optimized allocation of arid saline farmlands and irrigation water resources for sustainable agriculture

Guang Yang, Chong Fu, Qiang Zuo, Jianchu Shi, Xun Wu, Xuejin Qiao and Alon Ben-Gal

Optimizing the water-energy-food nexus in dryland winter wheat systems on the loess plateau

Di Zhang, DongXia Wu, Mingke Xue, Jinna Liu, William D. Batchelor, Dongxiao Li, Wen Zhang, Yan Wang and Hui Ju

Editorial note on correct use of units and abbreviations for measurement of salinity, area and mass, and comments regarding the use of chlorophyll meter measurements

Rodney B Thompson

A UAV-based method for root zone soil moisture modeling of different farmland scale with grain and economic crops

Jichao Wang, Hongwei Huang, H.H.S. Ariyasena, Jian Zhao, Xinyue Zhang, Xuerui Gao, Xining Zhao and Yangzi Zhao

Micro-sprinkler irrigation with optimal irrigation regimes maintain grain yields while increasing carbon emission efficiency and water productivity of winter wheat on the North China Plain

Hao Zheng, Chunlian Zheng, Chitao Sun, Yudong Zheng, Caiyun Cao, Anqi Zhang, Junpeng Zhang and Hongkai Dang

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria enhance essential oil production and antioxidant activity of Mentha piperita under water deficit stress

Esma Ozhuner

Scaling up water-saving irrigation reduces yield-scaled greenhouse gas emissions by over one-quarter in China’s rice paddies

Qiang Xu, Dicai Ao, Ahmed I. Abdo, Ji Chen, Xiaoping Chen, Hao Liang, Kees Jan van Groenigen and Yu Jiang

Can Moistube irrigation (MTI) self-regulate to ambient temperature and soil-atmosphere interface conditions? MTI performances under simulated temperature, wind, radiation, transpiration, and precipitation

Ce Wang, Jinyang Ye, Wuerkaixi Kurexi, Mingyi Huang, Xiaoan Chen, Peirong Lu, Meixiang Xie, Hongchao Qiu and Zhanyu Zhang

Water transport dynamics in a meadow wetland under different hydrological years: Model simulation and mechanism analysis

Wei Zhang, Tingxi Liu, Yongzhi Bao, Limin Duan, Lina Hao, Xin Tong, Yahui Han, Simin Zhang, Shuo Lun, Yuxiang Wang and V.P. Singh

Evaluating the ability of satellite remote sensing to detect changes in actual evapotranspiration under contrasting field management practices in the Czech Republic

T. Ghisi, M. Fischer, J. Bohuslav, M. Orság, H. Nieto, G. Pozníková, Z. Žalud and M. Trnka

Spatiotemporal dynamics of actual evapotranspiration and its attribution analysis in dryland regions of Northwest China

Kaixuan Liu, Haibo Wang, Jingfeng Xiao, Kun Zhang, Gaofeng Zhu, Xufeng Wang, Hu, Yi’na, Yi Song, Junlei Tan and Liying Geng

Integrated application of subsoiling tillage and micro-ridge-furrow planting enhances maize yield, water productivity and economic benefit in drought-prone regions

Xiaoling Wang, Qingxuan Yang, Longlong Wang, Muhammad Shoaib Asad, Jiaji Ding, Tie Cai, Xining Zhao, Enke Liu, Xiaoli Chen, Zhikuan Jia and Xiaolong Ren

Interactions between soil water and groundwater differ during artificial recharge and extreme rainfall periods

Gaofei Yin, Xiaoyuan Xu, Tongyang Li, Tiantian Wang, Haw Yen, Lingling Hua, Huiqing Jiao, Bingxin Tong, Xinzhong Du, Hongda Wen and Wenchao Li

Paddy field irrigation forecast based on a satellite data driven energy water balance model

Xuhua Hu, Mengting Chen, Yufeng Luo and Chiara Corbari

Greenhouse gas emission and its sensitivity parameters under controlled irrigation in cold-region paddy fields

Chang Ao, Zhongmou Zhang, Honghu Li, Jin Yu, Weimin Xing, Wenzhi Zeng and Yi Liu

Promising water-saving strategies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring rice yield in paddy fields: Evidences from a global meta-analysis

Zhiguang Xing, Weiyang Zhang, Weilu Wang and Lijun Liu