Agricultural Water Management

1976 - 2025

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Volume 322, issue C, 2025

Assessing changes in growth, yield, and rhizosphere microbiome of red beetroot (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. conditiva) cultivated under a saline integrated vegeculture-aquaculture system

Fahad Kimera, Muziri Mugwanya, Walaa Ahmed, Mahmoud A.O. Dawood and Hani Sewilam

A practical UAV-assisted workflow for high-throughput screening of drought-resistant rice

Xin Wang, Huilin Cheng, Jingyi Fang, Xiaoyan Xi, Wei Zhang, Yansong Chua, Zhichun Xu, Yunyu Chen, Huixiu Wang, Qinyang Zhou, Tiansheng Zhu, Luis A.J. Mur, Liang Chen and Qiaojun Lou

Energetic optimization in irrigation systems: Layout generation with energy criteria using graph and clustering techniques

Elena Gómez, Roberto del Teso, Álvaro R. Montaña and Elvira Estruch-Juan

Simulation of the pea crop development using AquaCrop model in Chichaoua region, Morocco: Application for irrigation management

Lamia Jallal, Salah Er-Raki, Saïd Khabba, Jamal Ezzahar, Oumaima Kaissi, Zoubair Rafi and Abdelghani Chehbouni

Estimation of soil hydraulic parameters for fine-textured soils using HYDRUS-1D coupled with PEST

Ishmeet Kaur, Afua A. Mante, Ramanathan Sri Ranjan, Francis Zvomuya, Kayla Moore, Kurt Gottfried and Taras Lychuk

Numerical modelling of the effects of sub-irrigation using treated wastewater on nitrogen species and groundwater levels using HYDRUS-2D

Hamid Moghimi, Mateusz Zawadzki, Lara Speijer, Delphine Vandeputte, Yue Gao, Marc Elskens, Mohaddeseh Mousavi Nezhad and Marijke Huysmans

Revealing spatiotemporal patterns of fertilizer use and agricultural non-point source pollution in smallholder farming watersheds of mountainous and hilly areas

Lichen Lang, Zhihui Li, Hongkuan Zang, Xing Gao, Feng Wu, Wang Deng and Ya Gao

Machine learning-based winter wheat yield prediction using multisource data

Seyed Arash Khosravani Shariati and Ali Abbasi

Quantitative assessment of best management practices for soil and water conservation: A case study from the Tarquinia plain

Marwah Yaseen, Nikolaos Mellios, Alessandro Pagano, Ivan Portoghese, Raffaele Giordano, Vito Iacobellis, Aras Izzaddin, Silvia Vanino and Chrysi Laspidou

Stability of oxygen diffusivity and aeration indicators in soilless growth media under wetting–drying cycles

Shahrokh Shahmansouri, Mohammad Reza Mosaddeghi and Hossein Shariatmadari

Effect of deficit irrigation on the fate of topdressing urea in a cherry tomato-soil system as assessed by 15N-labeling

Minghui Cheng, Zhaokai Yu, Zhibin Zhou, Tianyu Gu, Haidong Wang, Xiaogang Liu, Qiliang Yang, Fucang Zhang and Xiukang Wang

Regional dynamics in evapotranspiration components, crop coefficients, and water productivity of vineyards

V. Phogat, P.R. Petrie, M. Bonada and C. Collins

Mitigating nutrient loss in rice-wheat rotation system: An ecologically engineered solutions with field-ditch-pond systems

Yuanke Jiang, Lianhua Liu, Xueliang Huang, Yan Yan, Runyu Xue, Chang Ma and Qingwen Zhang

Digital twin-enabled intelligent irrigation-drainage system for precision water-salt management in saline agroecosystems

Mengting Qin, Chuansong Zhang, Guorong Ma, Yongcheng Ma, Xiong Feng, Peijie Li and Kepeng Feng

Integrated application of foliar biostimulants and biofertilizers improves wheat resilience, nutrient uptake, and yield under deficit irrigation in semi-arid regions

Seyed Majid Mousavi, Mohammad Saeed Tadayon and Jafar Shahabi Far

Stacking ensemble learning coupled with multi-source remote sensing data: Enhancing soil salinity inversion accuracy in barley-cultivated salinized soils

Meihua Deng, Chao Zhang, Min Tang, Chaoyu Liao, Yujie Hu, Zheng Zhang, Shaoyuan Feng and Zhen Zheng

Assessing the real impact of inter-provincial grain trade on water and land resources within China via a modified framework

Nan Wu, Jan F. Adamowski, Mengyang Wu, En Hua, Yubao Wang, Shikun Sun and Xinchun Cao

Water competition and drivers for energy-food production in the Yellow River Basin under rigid water resource constraints

Fan Wu, Dechun Huang, Zhengqi He and Sijia Liu

Analysis of driving factors of soil salinity in Southern Xinjiang irrigation areas under dry-sowing and wet-emerging conditions

Tingbo Lv, Shaozhong Kang, Yifan Liu, Menghan Bian, Ling Tong and Wenhao Li

Soil surface ridging for improved yield with wider spacing of drip laterals in irrigated spring wheat

Liulong Li, Xinru Wang, Wenliang Wan, Zhaofeng Li, Jian Cai, Qin Zhou, Mei Huang, Yingxin Zhong, Xiao Wang and Dong Jiang

Optimization of fertilization strategies for paddy fields based on multi-task transfer learning and reinforcement learning

Zeyu Zhang, Dongxing Xie, Kui Cheng, Zhuqing Liu, Giulia Ischia, Ying Zhao and Fan Yang

Rainfed spring canola yield response to changing heat and water stress in the Canadian Prairie region

Yohanne Larissa Gavasso-Rita, Masoud Zaerpour, Hebatallah Abdelmoaty, Yanping Li, Amin Elshorbagy, Corinne Schuster-Wallace, Athanasios Paschalis and Simon Michael Papalexiou

Integrating water footprint into cultivated land ecological compensation model: Insights from a provincial-level analysis in mainland China

Ben Pei, Shulin Chen and Hui Zhang

Partial root-zone drying restricts root ABA accumulation thereby restoring fiber strength via synergistic regulation of cellulose biosynthesis and crystallinity

Lin Liu, Wenqing Zhao, Kang Du, Zhihui Yang, Wei Hu, Shanshan Wang and Zhiguo Zhou

Modeling root water uptake of landscape groundcovers with HYDRUS-1D and particle swarm optimization

Zahra Amiri and Amir Verdi

Performance of controlled drainage in tile-drained agricultural fields: An exploratory scenario analysis with the soil-plant model SWAP

Erika Rodríguez-Lache, Guillaume Blanchy, Ali Mehmandoostkotlar and Sarah Garré

Research status of winter irrigation based on bibliometric analysis

Tingqi Xiao, Jinbao Shui, Fenxia Yu and Yanxia Zhong

Assessing groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation using hydrogeochemistry and machine learning in Northern China

Jiacong Tian, Jucai Yang, Wei Liu, Maoliang Zhang, Kyriaki Daskalopoulou, Yiguang Zou, Nuo Xu, Zilong Liao, Yaoqiang Huo, Ying Zhu, Yingnan Cao, Sheng Xu and Jianguo Liu

Influence of vineyard row orientation on evapotranspiration estimates from a satellite-based two-source energy balance model

Diego Salazar-Martínez, Kyle R. Knipper, William P. Kustas, Nicolas Bambach, María A. Ponce de León, Sebastian Castro, Peter Tolentino, John Prueger, Joe Alfieri, Lynn McKee, Martha C. Anderson, Feng Gao, Ian R. Wright, Andrew Gal and Andrew J. McElrone

Water balance analysis in Iowa using satellite-based evapotranspiration, precipitation, and streamflow data

Miguel Diaz, Antonio Arenas, Keith E. Schilling and Calvin F. Wolter

Spatial heterogeneity of agricultural drought drivers in irrigation district: A causal inference framework bridging covariation and structural equation modeling

Xiang Shi, Wenting Han and Yubin Wang

Regional dynamics in the irrigation requirement of maize and wheat crops in relation to changes in the climate and cultivated area in the Shandong’s Yellow River Basin

Xin Han, Zhongxin Ma, Baozhong Zhang, Zhigong Peng, Kai Zhang and Xin Li

Can improved plant nutrition buffer against water-related yield losses in oil palm?

Ruli Wandri, Juan Pablo Monzon, Walter Daniel Carciochi, Kurniatun Hairiah, Didik Suprayogo, Meine van Noordwijk, Dwi Asmono and Patricio Grassini

Water balance of three plantations in hilly areas of South China

Qian Wang, Ping Zhao, Ying Xiong, Teemu Hölttä, Xia Chen, Xiuhua Zhao, Liwei Zhu and Leena Järvi

Optimal straw return strategies for enhancing SOC, crop yield, and mitigating CO2 emissions in Chinese wheat and maize systems

Wenzheng Tang, Guilin Yu, Qiuping Fu, Shiwei Zhou, Yanjie Hao, Meng Xiao, Guijun Lv and Cheng Chen

Quantification of water uptake by winter wheat roots under different dripline burial depths using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes

Yanni Li, Junting You, Shangtong Yang, Zhe Zhang, Siying Huang, Guochun Li, Jun Sun, Chang Lv, Menglong Wu, Wenquan Niu, Qirui Gao and Kadambot H.M. Siddique

Energy flux, evapotranspiration, and crop coefficients of drip-irrigated kiwifruit and citrus orchards in Southwest China

Ningbo Cui, Chenggaoge Yang, Xiuyun Yu, Daozhi Gong, Yu Feng, Xiaoxian Zhang, Lu Zhao, Zhihui Wang, Jingyuan Xue and Shouzheng Jiang

Agricultural rapid-onset droughts in southern China’s grain-producing regions: Spatiotemporal evolution and potential drought-crop risks

Xiaoyin Liu, Peixin Li, Yifan Shen, Yuping Lv, Linxian Liao, Jia Wei and Junzeng Xu

Optimal irrigation scheduling for sustainable agriculture: Minimising energy costs in rotational management

Francesca Peretti, Andrea Menapace, Ariele Zanfei and Maurizio Righetti

Multi-source data fusion for estimating potato transpiration under water stress using machine learning models

Yida Li, Yuxin Wang, Yuqi Zhang, Liuyang Wang, Man Zhang and Han Li

Water productivity in olive trees: Current advances and new perspectives

Anabela A. Fernandes-Silva, Alon Ben-Gal, Rafael D. Miranda Fernandes, Riccardo Gucci, Burhanettin Imrak, Dymphina K. Andima, Teresa A. Paço and Omar Garcia-Tejera

Optimizing CO2 - irrigation - nitrogen synergies to ensure short-haired melon growth while improving economic and resource efficiency

Zhi Yang, Ziqi Feng, Jiyuan Bi, Zepeng Zhang, Taiguo Yang, Lijuan Qiu and Zhi Zhang

Domestic wastewater reuse in hydroponic systems: A systematic review of adoption, nutrient variability, challenges, and future directions

Emmanuel Ojochegbe Valentine, Barnabas Oluoch, Takudzwa Mandizvo, William Musazura and Alfred Odindo

Water security assessment in mountainous regions: A new framework for integrating water quality and ecosystem service flows

Lanfang Liu, Bangjin Yi, Suling He, Jinliang Wang, Fengzhi Wu, Jun Ma and Rafael Antonio Chaparro Torres

Effects of supplemental irrigation and nitrogen application rates on water-nitrogen-light use efficiency of maize-soybean intercropping systems in Guanzhong Plain of China

Zhengxin Zhao, Zongyang Li, Xiaoyan Xu, Jiatun Xu, Xiaobo Gu and Huanjie Cai

Quantifying anthropogenic drivers of water storage decline to support sustainable water management in a coal-mining semi-arid region

Wei Liang, Ning Chen, Fen Gou, Yonghui Wang, Yingying Yao, Yihe Lü, Longhai Wang, Jianwu Yan and Shuai Li

Optimizing deficit mulched drip irrigation improves grain crop yield and water productivity in global cropland

Ningbo Cui, Runtong Li, Shenglin Wen, Zongjun Wu, Daozhi Gong, Yaosheng Wang, Chunwei Liu, Qingyan He, Liwen Xing, Yixuan Zhang and Zhihui Wang

Nitrogen inputs, fate, and associated health risks in an intensive agricultural district: The role of irrigation-induced nitrogen

Xinyue Kou, Lili Mao, Junjun Ding, Shan Zhuang, Qian Zheng, Qiaozhen Li, Chunying Xu, Daozhi Gong and Yuzhong Li

Estimating soil water content of cotton fields using UAV-based multi-source remote sensing data fusion

Zhenxiao Li, Qian Cheng, Zhen Chen, Youzhen Xiang, Xiaotao Hu, Naftali Lazarovitch and Jingbo Zhen

Beyond scarcity: Science-based solutions for water and agriculture in the Western United States

Noah Silber-Coats, Lauren Parker, Fernald, Alexander (Sam), Sharon B. Megdal and Emile Elias

Water-fertilizer optimization significantly improved cotton yield under dry-sowing and wet-emergence pattern: The case study in arid area of Southern Xinjiang, China

Feifei Jia, Dong Zeng, Bo Zhou, Tingbo Lv, Wenhao Li, Tian Chen, Yang Xiao and Yunkai Li

Balancing yield and water productivity in wheat: A meta-analysis of irrigation, soil, and climate interactions

Yiwen Yang, Zitian Wang, Yuru Ma, Yunqi Wang, Jinze Bai and Rui Zhang

Impacts of long-term drip irrigation on K-bearing mineral weathering and microbial potassium mobilization in arid cotton systems

Hongbang Liang, Feihu Yin, Jinzhu Zhang, Jihong Zhang, Yue Zhao, Tao Zhao, Na Zhao and Zhenhua Wang

Integrating deficit irrigation, crop modelling and Water–Energy–Food nexus to enhance durum wheat resilience in Mediterranean climate conditions

Marino Marrocu, Marco Dettori, Luca Massidda, Giulia Urracci, Gabriella Pusceddu, Valentina Mereu, Simone Manca and Gianluca Carboni

Soil and water management to prevent salinization under changing climate conditions

Xuan Yu, Alon Ben-Gal, Elia Scudiero, Isaya Kisekka, Pichu Rengasamy and Rongjiang Yao

Water-nitrogen use, rice growth and yield dynamics in cold regions of Northeast China: A five-year study

Ya Gao, Chen Sun, Tiago B. Ramos, Dongyang Ren, Weiyan Pan, Guanhua Huang and Xu Xu

An improved maize normalized root length density model based on water consumption and nitrogen application

Yuchen Li, Weibo Nie, Jiayi Li, Hairui Wang and Qingjun Bai

Pre-harvest forecasting of rainfed wheat yield in Iran using multi-source remote sensing and machine learning

Hanie Bourbour, Mohammad Abdolahipour, Hojjat Abdollahi, Ershad Abiar and Mahmoud Mashal

Evaluating sectoral water use and precipitation variability on blue water scarcity under historical and future climate conditions in the Mahi River Basin

G.E. Nagashree and Ashutosh Sharma

Examination of nutrient and sediment loss mitigation for farm roadway runoff on an Irish dairy farm

D.G. Opoku, M.G. Healy, O. Fenton and P. Tuohy

Agroforestry buffers drought stress by enhancing hydrological redistribution in dryland apple orchards

Min Yang, Lianhao Zhao, Xiaodong Gao, Jizixing Zhu, Shaofei Wang, Hailong He, Yaohui Cai and Xining Zhao

Evaluating the potential of desalinated irrigation in water-stressed regions through optimized planting dates and irrigation strategies

Babak Zolghadr-Asli, Neil McIntyre, Slobodan Djordjevic, Raziyeh Farmani, Liliana Pagliero and Gabriel Pérez-Murillo

How controlled drainage and peat subsidence affect the hydrology of cultivated peatlands under changing climatic conditions

Aleksi Salla, Heidi Salo, Mika Tähtikarhu and Harri Koivusalo

Machine learning-based inversion and sensitivity analysis of soil moisture in Hemerocallis cultivation

Jingshu Wang, Peng He, Keming Du, Xuran Li, Lishuai Xu, Fan Yang and Rutian Bi

Seasonal drought during the soybean growth period and agricultural water stress in southern China eased in the context of global warming

Xiaolong Yang, Dongli She, Yong Jing, Daming Yang, Xiaoyu Jiang, Yong Zhong and Lei Gao

The pyfao56 automatic irrigation scheduling algorithm

Kelly R. Thorp, Kendall C. DeJonge and Meetpal S. Kukal

Post-drought productivity resilience in rubber plantations: Critical thresholds of water supply scheme and effects of water supply timing

Runqing Zhang, Zhixiang Wu, Shuwen Zheng, Yao Chen, Tomomichi Kato, Zhenghong Tan, Lan Wu and Zhongyi Sun

Drivers of collective action in agricultural water conservation: Applying the social identity model to Iranian farmers in a wetlands basin

Vahid Karimi, Yan Tan, Ladan Naderi, Marzieh Keshavarz and Gerald G. Singh

Optimizing water-fertilizer synergy in vegetable-type Brassica napus L.: Effects of split fertilization on crop performance and resource use efficiency

Qiang Zheng, Peng Song, Ji Feng, Xin Wang, Siqi Han, Kai Zhang, Shuqin Li, Peng Hou and Peiling Yang

Remote sensing-based cropping pattern identification and its impact on groundwater use in canal command areas of an irrigated agriculture region in Pakistan

Aftab Haider Khan, Nuaman Ejaz, Songhao Shang, Khalil Ur Rahman and Aqil Tariq

Reconstructing aquifer dynamics with machine learning: Linking irrigation expansion to groundwater decline in a data-scarce hyper-arid region

Samuel Chucuya, Roosselvet Pacci, Betzi Bustincio, Edgar Taya-Acosta, Wilfredo Alfonso-Morales, German Huayna, Edwin Pino-Vargas, Eusebio Ingol-Blanco, Abrahan Mora, Juan Antonio Torres-Martínez, Christian Narvaez-Montoya and Jürgen Mahlknecht

Characterization of soil preferential flow in the paddy field-ridge transition zone of terrace, Southwest China

Linlin Chu, Rong Ma, Lidong Bi and Dan Chen

Quantification and spatially explicit driving forces of the farmland sustainability based on water-energy-carbon coupling systems under regional resource stress

Qi Liu, Qiangqiang Li, Xiaodong Gao, Xuerui Gao, Changjian Li, Yaohui Cai and Xining Zhao

The effect of deficit irrigation combining with transparent/black film and straw mulching on wheat-maize cropping system in the North China Plain

Shanshan Qin, Yanqun Zhang, Xiyun Jiao, Chuanjuan Wang, Yan Mo, Shihong Gong, Zhe Gu and Baozhong Zhang

Optimizing irrigation regimes for foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) in Northwest China: Effects of irrigation quota and frequency on yield and crop water productivity

Mengfei Yuan, Ligang Xu, Jiaxuan Dou, Ying Tang, Xue Tan, Wangbo Xu, GuanHui Yu and Baozhu Zhuo

Advancing evapotranspiration estimation with remote sensing and artificial intelligence – A review

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

Revealing nonlinear thresholds and interactions in maize yield and water productivity responses to straw incorporation via an integrated meta-analysis and explainable machine learning framework

Xuegui Zhang, Yao Li, Zengxuan Deng, Zhengxin Zhao, Xiaobo Gu, Lianyu Yu, Jiatun Xu and Huanjie Cai

Optimizing winter wheat resilience with drought-crop modeling in the Tarim River Basin

Anni Deng, Xuchuang Yu, Ning Yao, Jian Liu, Qiang Yu, Hao Feng, Ping'an Jiang and Xiaotao Hu

Deep Reinforcement Learning for irrigation optimization: Advantages, opportunities, and challenges

Jiamei Liu, Fangle Chang, Jiahong Yang, Xinyi Jie, Caiyun Lu, Chao Wang, Lei Xie, Longhua Ma and Hongye Su

Optimising irrigation scheduling for winter wheat-soybean relay intercropping in temperate Europe

Jing Yu, Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei, Moritz Reckling, Jennifer B. Thompson, Jay Ram Lamichhane and Claas Nendel

Root-shoot synergy mediates resource utilization and grain yield of rainfed maize under nitrogen fertilization and soil mulching

Zhenqi Liao, Xiaoqian Jiang, Shengzhao Pei, Qingyang Wu, Muhammad Farooq, Daisuke Urano, Sabine J. Seidel, Zhijun Li and Junliang Fan

Heterogeneity and trend of water conservancy productivity in China

Ruixin Xu, Liyuan Ren and Lifeng Wu

Leveraging external atmospheric conditions to enhance the drought predictability over the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Keke Zhou, Xiaogang Shi, Jianzhu Li, Ting Zhang and Ping Feng

Balancing agricultural expansion and groundwater sustainability: Insights from GRACE and hydrological models

Chi Xu, Hao Chen, Wanchang Zhang, Shuhang Wang and Zhenghui Fu

Evaluating trade-offs among cotton yield, groundwater extraction, and future projections for sustainable water management in the Texas High Plains

Akkarapon Chaiyana, Anita Kumari and S.V. Krishna Jagadish