Agricultural Water Management

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Volume 308, issue C, 2025

Surface water and flood-based agricultural systems: Mapping and modelling long-term variability in the Senegal river floodplain

Andrew Ogilvie, Cheickh Sadibou Fall, Ansoumana Bodian, Didier Martin, Laurent Bruckmann, Djiby Dia, Issa Leye, Papa Malick Ndiaye, Donissongou Dimitri Soro, Jean Homian Danumah, Jean-Claude Bader and Jean-Christophe Poussin

Impacts of wastewater irrigation on Mediterranean soil and food: A three-year case study in Italy

N. Surdyk, A. Battilani, L. Cary, L. Sandei, M. Pettenati and W. Kloppmann

Developing a method for root-zone soil moisture monitoring at the field scale using remote sensing and simulation modeling

Hamideh Noory, Morteza Khoshsima, Atsushi Tsunekawa, Mitsuru Tsubo, Nigussie Haregeweyn and Salar Pashapour

An LSTM approach to deciphering irrigation operations from remote sensing and groundwater levels records

Shiqi Wei and Tianfang Xu

Evaluation of crop and pond-deepening adaptations to climate change in saline coastal Bangladesh: Benefit-cost and risk analysis

Md. Jahangir Kabir, Donald S. Gaydon and Rob Cramb

Climate-smart agricultural technology and gender-differentiated food, and water security: Evidence from smallholder sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Farmers

Abiodun Olusola Omotayo and Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso

Assessing the irrigation water requirement and irrigation water use at a house scale in Las Vegas Valley

Rubab Saher and Thomas Ott

Managing agricultural water use in the Western United States: A search for efficient climate adaptation institutions

Frank A. Ward, Nicholas A. Potter and R. Aaron Hrozencik

Responses of dry edible bean crop growth and water productivities under different irrigation scenarios in the U.S. high plains

Angie Gradiz, Xin Qiao, Saleh Taghvaeian, Wei-zhen Liang, Daran Rudnick, Abia Katimbo, Jun Wang and Swathi Palle

Variation and simulation of tomato transpiration in a greenhouse under different ventilation modes

Jiankun Ge, Sen Wang, Xuewen Gong, Yuhao Zhu, Zihui Yu and Yanbin Li

Ensuring irrigation water availability for off-season vegetable production in the face of competition from rural domestic water supplies in the commune of Lalo (Benin)

Djigbo Félicien Badou, Christophe Nouvewa, Christian Allé, Audrey Merveille Adango and Luc Ollivier Sintondji

Spatio-temporal patterns and drivers of irrigation water requirement in mainland China

Xiaorui Shi and Wenbin Zhu

Water scarcity in semi-arid California compromises perennial alfalfa’s high yield and carbon sinking potentials

Tianxin Wang, Kanishka Mallick, Joseph Verfaille, Daphne Szutu and Dennis Baldocchi

A stomatal optimization model integrating leaf stomata-photosynthetic capacity regulation in response to soil water stress

Yong Liu, Tiesong Hu, Rui Zhu, Qiuwen Chen, Xiang Zeng, Peiran Jing and Yifan Huang

Water utilization strategy of tomato grown on east-west orientation in solar greenhouses revealed based on hydroxide isotopes

Furong Han, Lili Zhangzhong, Wengang Zheng, Jingjing Li, Kaili Shi and Yibo Wei

A novel regional forecastable multiscalar standardized drought index (RFMSDI) for regional drought monitoring and assessment

Aamina Batool, Veysi Kartal, Zulfiqar Ali, Miklas Scholz and Farman Ali

Subsurface drip irrigation mitigated greenhouse gas emission and improved root growth and yield in apple in semi-arid region

Jiabin Liu, Xiaodong Gao, Juanjuan Song, Mingyi Wen, Jianjun Wang, Yaohui Cai and Xining Zhao

Impact of water transfer on socioeconomic drought in China: A new approach based on production and consumption

Junlin Qu, Changhai Qin, Jiaxuan Chang, Yong Zhao, Hao Wang and Fan He

Effect of irrigation with magnetized and ionized water on yield, nutrient uptake and water-use efficiency of winter wheat in Xinjiang, China

Xinyue Chen, Kai Zhang, Xiaopeng Gao, Xin Ai, Guoyue Chen, Xiaomeng Guo, Chengcheng Wu and Lu Zhang

Hydrothermal conditions dominated sensitivity and lag effect of grassland productivity in Yunnan Province, China: Implications for climate change

Yan Fang, Long Wan, Jing Tong, Guijing Li, Jing Pang, Enfu Chang, Linglan Chen and Zixuan Shi

Unravelling spatiotemporal propagation processes among meteorological, soil, and evaporative flash droughts from a three-dimensional perspective

Chen Hu, Dunxian She, Gangsheng Wang, Liping Zhang, Zhaoxia Jing, Zhihong Song and Jun Xia

Micro-nano aerated subsurface drip irrigation and biochar promote photosynthesis, dry matter accumulation and yield of cucumbers in greenhouse

Zan Ouyang, Jie Zhang, Xueli Liang, Hui Wang, Zhenfeng Yang, Rong Tang, Qihua Yu and Yong Zhang

Alternate partial root-zone irrigation combined with nitrogen fertilizer: An adaptive surge root irrigation and nitrogen strategy to improve apple yield, water-nitrogen use efficiency and fruit quality

Kun Hao, Wei Zhang, Shijiang Zhu, Youliang Peng, Yun Zhong, Feilong Jie, Lihua Liu, Yalin Gao, Lin Zhou, Chuang Liu and Fangyuan Shen

Spatiotemporal optimization of irrigation practices for winter wheat in China: Rationale, implications, and solutions

Luchen Zhang, Yuan Cao, Weihao Qian, Junning Tian, Shengshi Huang, Xiaolei Qiu, Bing Liu, Liang Tang, Liujun Xiao, Weixing Cao, Yan Zhu and Leilei Liu

Development potential of multi-cropping systems and its influence on agricultural water consumption in the Huang–Huai–Hai River Basin of China

Linghui Li, Qingming Wang, Yong Zhao, Jiaqi Zhai, Haihong Li, Shuying Han, Lichuan Wang and Yunpeng Gui

A new regional reference evapotranspiration model based on quantile approximation of meteorological variables

Guomin Huang, Jianhua Dong, Lifeng Wu, Jingwei Luo, Rangjian Qiu, Yaokui Cui and Yicheng Wang

Effect of practicing water-saving irrigation on greenhouse gas emissions and crop productivity: A global meta-analysis

Mingdong Tan, Ningbo Cui, Shouzheng Jiang, Liwen Xing, Shenglin Wen, Quanshan Liu, Weikang Li, Siwei Yan, Yaosheng Wang, Haochen Jin and Zhihui Wang

High-resolution mapping of evapotranspiration over heterogeneous cropland affected by soil salinity

Meihan Liu, Huimin Lei, Xingwang Wang and Paula Paredes

Generating high-precision farmland irrigation pattern maps using remotely sensed ecological indices and machine learning algorithms

Yuqi Liu, Yang Wang, Yanling Liao, Renkuan Liao and Jirka Šimůnek

A novel agricultural drought index based on multi-source remote sensing data and interpretable machine learning

Hao Chen, Ni Yang, Xuanhua Song, Chunhua Lu, Menglan Lu, Tan Chen and Shulin Deng

Possible accumulation of emerging contaminants of concern in treated wastewater on the soil plant system of a processing tomato-wheat succession

Giuseppe Gatta, Federica Carucci, Anna Gagliardi, Michele Perniola, Michele Denora, Francesco De Mastro, Gennaro Brunetti, Sapia Murgolo, Cristina De Ceglie, Alfieri Pollice and Marcella Michela Giuliani

Unraveling the interplay between NDVI, soil moisture, and snowmelt: A comprehensive analysis of the Tibetan Plateau agroecosystem

Di Wei, Lin Yan, Ziqi Zhang, Jia Yu, Luo, Xue’er, Yun Zhang and Bo Wang

Increasing exposure of cotton growing areas to compound drought and heat events in a warming climate

Shengli Liu, Wei Zhang, Tongtong Shi, Tong Li, Hui Li, Guanyin Zhou, Zhanbiao Wang and Xiongfeng Ma

Effects of management of plastic and straw mulching management on crop yield and soil salinity in saline-alkaline soils of China: A meta-analysis

Ying Song, Jineng Sun, Mingjun Cai, Jinyu Li, Meizhen Bi and Mingxiu Gao

Enhancing maize yield, water use efficiency, and Zn content under drought stress by applying Zn-solubilizing bacteria

Fahimeh Khaledi, Hamidreza Balouchi, Mohsen Movahhedi Dehnavi and Amin Salehi

Processing tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Miller) yield and quality in arid regions through micro-nano aerated drip irrigation coupled with humic acid application

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

Volume 307, issue C, 2025

Multimodal sequential cross-modal transformer for predicting plant available water capacity (PAWC) from time series of weather and crop biological data

Dung Nguyen, Peter de Voil, Andries Potgieter, Yash P. Dang, Thomas G. Orton, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Thanh Thi Nguyen and Scott C. Chapman

Canopy humidity and irrigation regimes interactively affect rice physiology, grain filling and yield during grain filling period

Le Chen, Xueyun Deng, Hongxia Duan, Xueming Tan, Xiaobing Xie, Xiaohua Pan, Lin Guo, Tao Luo, Xinbiao Chen, Hui Gao, Haiyan Wei, Hongcheng Zhang and Yongjun Zeng

Enhancing cotton irrigation with distributional actor–critic reinforcement learning

Yi Chen, Meiwei Lin, Zhuo Yu, Weihong Sun, Weiguo Fu and Liang He

Spatial characteristics and critical groundwater depth of soil salinization in arid artesian irrigation area of northwest China

Cui Chang, Guiyu Yang, Shuoyang Li, Hao Wang and Yaomingqi Song

Productivity of water and heat resources and cotton yield response to cropping pattern and planting density in cotton fields in arid area

Zhenlin Dong, Sumei Wan, Yunzhen Ma, Jinbin Wang, Lu Feng, Yunlong Zhai, Tiantian Li, Zhengjun Cui, Jian Wang, Beifang Yang, Ze Yang, Zhan Zhao, Fei Yan, Shiwu Xiong, Yabing Li and Guodong Chen

Lifecycle environmental benefits of integrated rational fertilization, biochar, and constructed wetland in mitigating nutrient loading

Yu-Ning Chen, Chihhao Fan, Michal Šereš, Markéta Šerešová, Jan Vymazal and Shu-Yuan Pan

Water–saving irrigation combined with N–loaded clinoptilolite enhances nutrient yield, and water productivity by improving rice root characteristics: A combined PCA–SEM analysis

Yang Sun, Qi Wu, Daocai Chi, Hongyang Chen, Suyun Zhu and Qingliang Liu

Effects of deficit drip irrigation at different growth stages on citrus leaf physiology, fruit growth, yield, and water productivity in South China

Fei Chen, Ningbo Cui, Shouzheng Jiang, Wenjiang Zhang, Hongping Li, Xiaomeng Li, Min Lv, Chunwei Liu, Rangjian Qiu and Zhihui Wang

Agricultural and energy products trade intensified the water scarcity in the grain and energy base in northern China

H.W. Huang, S. Jiang, S.Y. Zhang, Y.M. Wang, J.C. Wang, X.N. Zhao and X.R. Gao

Long-term Cd remediation mechanisms and potential risks in soil with biochar application under dry-wet cycling at different soil moisture levels

Shuang Huang, Zhuowen Meng, Jingwei Wu, Lei Xin and Qin Zhao

Depth-specific soil moisture estimation in vegetated corn fields using a canopy-informed model: A fusion of RGB-thermal drone data and machine learning

Milad Vahidi, Sanaz Shafian and William Hunter Frame

Regional-scale precision mapping of cotton suitability using UAV and satellite data in arid environments

Jianqiang He, Yonglin Jia, Yi Li, Asim Biswas, Hao Feng, Qiang Yu, Shufang Wu, Guang Yang and Kadambot.H.M. Siddique

Effect of topographical and soil complexity on potato yields in irrigated fields

Michael Kehoe, Adele Harding, Seinfeld Joshua Pagdilao and Willemijn M. Appels

The hydraulic performance and clogging characteristics of a subsurface drip irrigation system operating for five years in the North China plain

Li Zaiyu, Mo Yan, Gao Hao, Gong Shihong, Zhang Yanqun, Li Guangyong and Wu Feng

Physiological changes induced by green fodder expansion into grasslands and croplands enhance water-use efficiency in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Xu Wang, Jilin Yang, Jie Wang, Tong Yang, Chuchen Chang, Yanbo Zhao, Xiaocui Wu, Geli Zhang and Xiangming Xiao

Water use dynamics of almond and pistachio crops in the Mediterranean region amid climate change

Anshika Kandhway, Fabio Scarpare, Mingliang Liu, Roger Nelson, Jennifer C. Adam, Ray G. Anderson, Martha H. Conklin and Mohammad Safeeq

Deficit irrigation enhances yield and water productivity of apples by inhibiting excessive vegetative growth and improving photosynthetic performance

Shenglin Wen, Ningbo Cui, Yaosheng Wang, Daozhi Gong, Liwen Xing, Zongjun Wu, Yixuan Zhang and Zhihui Wang

Model-assisted analysis on the response of tomato fruit growth to source-sink ratio regulated by water and nitrogen

Huiping Zhou, Jinliang Chen and Shaozhong Kang

Climate change shifts risk of soil salinity and land degradation in water-scarce regions

Isaac Kramer, Nadav Peleg and Yair Mau

Remote sensing estimation of winter wheat residue cover with dry and wet soil background

Yuwei Yao, Hongrui Ren and Yujie Liu

Micro-nano bubble water subsurface drip irrigation affects strawberry yield and quality by modulation of microbial communities

Zhen Zheng, Yuming He, Yingli He, Jing Zhan, Chunyan Shi, Yujie Xu, Xiaowen Wang, Jian Wang and Chao Zhang

More food, but less land and water for nature: Why agricultural productivity gains did not materialize

Chris Seijger, Anton Urfels, Maria Christoforidou, Petra Hellegers, Gerlo Borghuis, Simon Langan and Gerardo van Halsema

Meta-analysis of water stress impact on rice quality in China

Shuhui Han, Xianfeng Liu, David Makowski and Philippe Ciais

Capturing the extent of climate's dynamic effects on runoff and nutrient yields across short- and long-term scales

Di Chang and Shuo Li

Study of regulated deficit irrigation regime based on individual fruit weight and quality response to water deficit duration: A case study in tomato

Xianbo Zhang, Hui Yang and Taisheng Du

Does water rights trading cause economic losses from agricultural water scarcity? Evidence from 264 Chinese cities

Jiajia Liu, Muhammad Umer, Jun Zhao, Qiang Li and Mei Qu

Implications of water management on methane emissions and grain yield in paddy rice: A case study under subtropical conditions in Brazil using the CSM-CERES-Rice model

Evandro H. Figueiredo Moura da Silva, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Kenneth J. Boote, Santiago Vianna Cuadra, Cheryl H. Porter, Walkyria Bueno Scivittaro, Silvio Steinmetz and Carlos E. Pellegrino Cerri

Nonlinear water stress response functions can improve the performance of the DSSAT-CERES-Wheat model under water deficit conditions

Ning Yao, Yingnan Wei, Kunhao Jiang, Jian Liu, Yi Li, Hui Ran, Tehseen Javed, Hao Feng, Qiang Yu and Jianqiang He

Saline water concentration determines the reduction pathway for oat phosphorus absorption

Tong Liu, Lihua Xia, Xinliang Dong, Jintao Wang, Xiaojing Liu, Hongyong Sun and Yunying Fang

Differences in effects of varying compound extreme temperature and precipitation events on summer maize yield in North China

Zhongxian Liu, Rangjian Qiu and Qi Zhang

Application of various canopy resistance calculation methods in vineyard evapotranspiration simulation at daily scale in Northwest China

Jingying Zhang, Dianyu Chen, Xiaotao Hu, Lucheng Qiu, Shujian Wang, Xuanrong Zhu, La Zhuo, Dongyan Zhang, Linzhe Wu and Linlin Zhang

Study on hierarchical regulation of crop irrigation threshold under severe drought conditions

Ruidan Gu, Huaxiang He, He Chen and Jiake Tian

Determination of the optimal frequency and duration of micro-spray patterns for high-temperature environment tomatoes based on the Fuzzy Borda model

Run Xue, Chuan Zhang, Haofang Yan, Kinde Negessa Disasa, Imran Ali Lakhiar, Muhammad Akhlaq, Muhammad Usman Hameed, Jun Li, Jiangtao Ren, Shuaishuai Deng, Biyu Wang and Rongxuan Bao

A method to estimate the water storage of on-farm reservoirs by detecting slope gradients based on multi-spectral drone data

Yixuan Wang, Nana Yan, Weiwei Zhu, Zonghan Ma and Bingfang Wu

Advancing date palm cultivation in the Arabian Peninsula and beyond: Addressing stress tolerance, genetic diversity, and sustainable practices

Soumya Koippully Manikandan, Dharshini Jenifer. A, Nisarga K. Gowda, Vaishakh Nair, Rami Al-Ruzouq, Mohamed Barakat A. Gibril, Fouad Lamghari, John Klironomos, Maryam Al Hmoudi, Mohamed Sheteiwy and Ali El-Keblawy

Enhancing water use efficiency and fruit quality in jujube cultivation: A review of advanced irrigation techniques and precision management strategies

Yingying Xing, Mengru Chen and Xiukang Wang

AquaCrop model-based sensitivity analysis of soil salinity dynamics and productivity under climate change in sandy-layered farmland

Zhuangzhuang Feng, Qingfeng Miao, Haibin Shi, José Manuel Gonçalves, Xianyue Li, Weiying Feng, Jianwen Yan, Dandan Yu and Yan Yan

Characteristics of water supply and demand in an agroforestry ecosystem under long-term continuous cropping assessed using the RZWQM2 model

Jing Zhang, Li Wang, Gong Cheng and Liangliang Jia

Simulating cover crops impacts on soil water and nitrogen dynamics and silage yield in the semi-arid Southwestern United States

Atinderpal Singh, Prakriti Bista, Sanjit K. Deb and Rajan Ghimire

Linking winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L) root traits and root water uptake with electrical resistivity tomography

Huijie Gu, Yanzhe Wang, Luca Peruzzo, Baoru Li, Yang Lu and Xiuwei Liu

Examining the complementarity in belowground water use between different varieties and ages of Arabica coffee plants and dominant shade tree species in an organic agroecosystem

Lyssette Elena Muñoz-Villers, Friso Holwerda, M. Susana Alvarado-Barrientos, Josie Geris and Todd E. Dawson

Drought-induced stress on rainfed and irrigated agriculture: Insights from multi-source satellite-derived ecological indicators

Yanan Chen, Ying Wang, Chaoyang Wu, Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim, Meihong Fang, Li Yao, Guihua Liu, Qiuyi Xu, Lintao Chen and Xuguang Tang

Treated wastewater reuse for recharge in agricultural fields: Retention dynamics and geochemical modeling of macronutrients in soils

Ajit Kumar and Basant Yadav

Ratoon rice strategy for enhanced water resource management: A simulation-based study in tropical monsoon climates

Shutaro Shiraki, Kywae,, Nwe Ni, Thin Mar Cho, Aung Kyaw Thu and Naoki Horikawa

Illuminating the dynamic water–nitrogen relationship in rice via stable isotope techniques to improve cultivation

Linlin Jiang, Bin Yang, Fan Zhao, Jie Pan, Zhenjie Chen and Junen Wu

Estimating stomatal conductance of citrus orchard based on UAV multi-modal information in Southwest China

Quanshan Liu, Zongjun Wu, Ningbo Cui, Shunsheng Zheng, Shouzheng Jiang, Zhihui Wang, Daozhi Gong, Yaosheng Wang, Lu Zhao and Renjuan Wei

Will new-type urbanization enhance sustainable potential of rural water resources in China? − Based on an improved water poverty framework

Wenxin Liu, Dequan Hao and Ruifan Xu

Dynamics and associations of selected agrometeorological variables in Robusta growing regions of Uganda

Ronald Ssembajwe, Catherine Mulinde, Saul D. Ddumba, Godfrey H. Kagezi, Ronald Opio, Judith Kobusinge, Frank Mugagga, Yazidi Bamutaze, Anthony Gidudu, Geoffrey Arinaitwe and Mihai Voda

Effect of partial root-zone drying irrigation (PRDI) on soil C:N:P stoichiometry in N-fixing crops: Insights from a three-year field study with alfalfa

Jing Zhang and Zheng Gang Guo

Appropriate nitrogen application under ridge-furrow plastic film mulching planting optimizes spring maize growth characteristics by improving soil quality in the Loess Plateau of China

Fan Zhang, Mengru Chen, Yingying Xing and Xiukang Wang

Grain yield and water productivity of maize under deficit irrigation and salt stress: Evidences from field experiment and literatures

Jia Gao, Lin Li, Risheng Ding, Shaozhong Kang, Taisheng Du, Ling Tong, Jian Kang, Wanli Xu and Guangmu Tang

Optimizing planting management practices considering a suite of crop water footprint indicators —A case-study of the Fengjiashan Irrigation District

Yujie Yuan, Jichao Wang, Xuerui Gao, Kejing Huang and Xining Zhao

Double disaggregation of the decline of terrestrial water storage for a highly cultivated dryland partially covered by glaciers

Zongxia Wang and Suxia Liu

Enhanced wheat yield and flag leaf physiology in saline-alkali soils using modified straw water-retaining agent

Min Yang, Cexun Ji, Kui Chao, Pengfei Zhu, Xiaoqing Yuan, Zenghui Hao, Xiulin Wang and Yan Shi

Agricultural GDP exposure to drought and its machine learning-based prediction in the Jialing River Basin, China

Xinzhi Wang, Qingxia Lin, Zhiyong Wu, Yuliang Zhang, Changwen Li, Ji Liu, Shinan Zhang and Songyu Li

An interval bilateral regulation framework of water resources supply and demand in irrigation area under water sources uncertainty

Zhan Shu, Yan Kang, Ying Gao, Xuemai Shi, Wanxue Li, Shuo Zhang, Songbai Song and Lingjie Li

Corrigendum to “Change of crop structure intensified water supply-demand imbalance in China’s Black Soil Granary” [Agric. Water Manag. 306 (2024) 109199]

Ying Feng, Ying Guo, Yanjun Shen, Guangxin Zhang, Yanfang Wang and Xiaolu Chen

Estimating and forecasting daily reference crop evapotranspiration in China with temperature-driven deep learning models

Jia Zhang, Yimin Ding, Lei Zhu, Yukuai Wan, Mingtang Chai and Pengpeng Ding

A comparative assessment of grey water footprint estimation methods in paddy fields

Mahsa Naderi, Abdullah Darzi-Naftchali, Fatemeh Karandish, Hadi Razaghian and Jiří Šimůnek

Innovative fertilization strategies for in-situ pollution control and carbon negativity enhancement in agriculture

Ya-Zhen Huang, You-Yi Lee and Chihhao Fan

Ditch rotation irrigation coupled with multi-scale ecological reservoir operation

Linhui Mu, Tao Bai, Dong Liu, Hongwei Ji, Mingjiang Deng and LiangPeng Hong

Relevance of the irrigation and soil management system to optimize maize crop production under semiarid Mediterranean conditions

Samuel Franco-Luesma, José Cavero and Jorge Álvaro-Fuentes

Spatio-temporal evolution and simulation of soil salinization in typical oasis water-saving irrigation area based on long series data

Wenhao Li, Shuanglong Gao, Dongjie Pei, Yue Wen, Xiaoguo Mu, Mengjie Liu and Zhenhua Wang