Agricultural Water Management

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Volume 246, issue C, 2021

Effect of water deficits on pomegranate tree performance and fruit quality – A review

Theresa Volschenk

Quantifying nitrate leaching to groundwater from a corn-peanut rotation under a variety of irrigation and nutrient management practices in the Suwannee River Basin, Florida

S. Rath, M. Zamora-Re, W. Graham, M. Dukes and D. Kaplan

Water productivity and its allometric mechanism in mulching cultivated maize (Zea mays L.) in semiarid Kenya

Xiao-Feng Zhang, Chong-Liang Luo, Hong-Xu Ren, David Mburu, Bao-Zhong Wang, Levis Kavagi, Kiprotich Wesly, Aggrey Bernard Nyende and You-Cai Xiong

Comparative analyses of variable and fixed rate irrigation and nitrogen management for maize in different soil types: Part II. Growth, grain yield, evapotranspiration, production functions and water productivity

Vasudha Sharma and Suat Irmak

Evaluating micro-irrigation system performance through assessment of farmers' satisfaction: implications for adoption, longevity, and water use efficiency

Davoud Rouzaneh, Masoud Yazdanpanah and Arman Bakhshi Jahromi

Effects of mulch and irrigation regimes on water distribution and root competition in an apple–soybean intercropping system in Loess Plateau, China

Chenghao Zheng, Ruoshui Wang, Xuan Zhou, Chaonan Li and Xiaoyu Dou

Groundwater quality concern for wider adaptability of novel modes of managed aquifer recharge (MAR) in the Ganges Basin, India

Sunil Kumar Jha, Vinay Kumar Mishra, Chhedi Lal Verma, Navneet Sharma, Alok Kumar Sikka, Paul Pavelic, Probodh Chandra Sharma, Laxmi Kant and Bharat R. Sharma

Optimal irrigation water allocation in Hetao Irrigation District considering decision makers’ preference under uncertainties

Xiaoxing Zhang, Ping Guo, Fan Zhang, Xiao Liu, Qiong Yue and Youzhi Wang

Evaluation of the most proper management scale on water use efficiency and water productivity: A case study of the Heihe River Basin, China

Qing Zhou, Yali Zhang and Feng Wu

Simulated deficit irrigation and climate change effects on sunflower production in Eastern Colorado with CSM-CROPGRO-Sunflower in RZWQM2

Jing Zhang, Huihui Zhang, Matthew W. Sima, Thomas J. Trout, Rob W. Malone and Li Wang

Effects of water stress applied at various phenological stages on yield, quality, and water use efficiency of melon

Duran Yavuz, Musa Seymen, Nurcan Yavuz, Hacer Çoklar and Muhammet Ercan

Irrigation efficiency, drain outflow and yield responses to drain depth in the Nile delta clay soil, Egypt

Mohamed K. El-Ghannam, Mahmoud. A. Aiad and Ahmed M. Abdallah

Yield-water relationships of lentil grown under different rice establishments in Lower Gangetic Plain of India

R. Nandi, K. Mondal, K.C. Singh, M. Saha, P.K. Bandyopadhyay and P.K. Ghosh

Leaf traits indicative of drought resistance in hybrid poplar

Austin Himes, Paul Emerson, Rose McClung, Heidi Renninger, Todd Rosenstiel and Brian Stanton

Evaluating optimal irrigation strategies for maize in Western Kansas

A. Araya, P.V.V. Prasad, P.H. Gowda, V. Sharda, C.W. Rice and I.A. Ciampitti

Managing moderate water deficit increased anthocyanin concentration and proanthocyanidin galloylation in “Refošk” grapes in Northeast Italy

Alberto Calderan, Paolo Sivilotti, Riccardo Braidotti, Alenka Mihelčič, Klemen Lisjak and Andreja Vanzo

Future climate change impacts on grain yield and groundwater use under different cropping systems in the North China Plain

Dengpan Xiao, De Li Liu, Puyu Feng, Bin Wang, Cathy Waters, Yanjun Shen, Yongqing Qi, Huizi Bai and Jianzhao Tang

Can ridge-furrow with film and straw mulching improve wheat-maize system productivity and maintain soil fertility on the Loess Plateau of China?

Heng Fang, Yuannong Li, Xiaobo Gu, Yupeng Li and Pengpeng Chen

Multi-scale modeling for irrigation water and cropland resources allocation considering uncertainties in water supply and demand

Mo Li, Hao Sun, Dong Liu, Vijay P. Singh and Qiang Fu

Assessment of the optimized scenarios for economic-environmental conjunctive water use utilizing gravitational search algorithm

Ahmad Mehrabi, Manouchehr Heidarpour, Hamid R. Safavi and Farshad Rezaei

Determining optimal nitrogen input rate on the base of fallow season precipitation to achieve higher crop water productivity and yield

Shaobo Yu, Shahbaz Khan, Fei Mo, Aixia Ren, Wen Lin, Yu Feng, Shifeng Dong, Jie Ren, Wenxiang Wang, Hafeez Noor, Zhenping Yang, Min Sun and Zhiqiang Gao

Has the water rights system reform restrained the water rebound effect? Empirical analysis from China's agricultural sector

Rilong Fei, Mengyuan Xie, Xin Wei and Ding Ma

Coupled hydrology-crop growth model incorporating an improved evapotranspiration module

Yuliang Zhang, Zhiyong Wu, Vijay P. Singh, Hai He, Jian He, Hao Yin and Yaxin Zhang

Assessment of the performance of drought indices for explaining crop yield variability at the national scale: Methodological framework and application to Mozambique

Ronnie J. Araneda-Cabrera, María Bermúdez and Jerónimo Puertas

On-farm reservoir monitoring using Landsat inundation datasets

Vinicius Perin, Mirela G. Tulbure, Mollie D. Gaines, Michele L. Reba and Mary A. Yaeger

Intra-block spatial and temporal variability of plant water status and its effect on grape and wine parameters

Aladino Jasse, Anke Berry, Jose Luis Aleixandre-Tudo and Carlos Poblete-Echeverría

Simulation study on performance of nitrogen loss of an improved subsurface drainage system for one-time drainage using HYDRUS-2D

Yuan Tao, Na Li, Shaoli Wang, Haorui Chen, Xiaoyan Guan and Mengzhe Ji

Improving the performance in crop water deficit diagnosis with canopy temperature spatial distribution information measured by thermal imaging

Yajun Luan, Junzeng Xu, Yuping Lv, Xiaoyin Liu, Haiyu Wang and Shimeng Liu

Effect of root-zone vertical soil moisture heterogeneity on water transport safety in soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in Robinia pseudoacacia

Zhongdian Zhang and Mingbin Huang

Understory mowing controls soil drying in a rainfed jujube agroforestry system in the Loess Plateau

Dianyu Chen, Youke Wang, Xue Zhang, Xinguang Wei, Xingwu Duan and Saifullah Muhammad

Phytotoxic effects of varying concentrations of leather tannery effluents on cotton and brinjal

Faiz Ahmad Joyia, Muhammad Yasin Ashraf, Fahad Shafiq, Sumera Anwar, Zaib-un- Nisa, Binish Khaliq and Arif Malik

Photosynthesis product allocation and yield in sweetpotato with different irrigation levels at mid-season

Siping Li, Lei Zhao, Ninghui Sun, Qing Liu and Huan Li

Understanding the relationship between biomass production and water use of Populus tomentosa trees throughout an entire short-rotation

Doudou Li, Jinqiang Liu, Anne Verhoef, Benye Xi and Virginia Hernandez-Santana

Automated ebb-and-flow subirrigation conserves water and enhances citrus liner growth compared to capillary mat and overhead irrigation methods

Arun D. Jani, Taylor D. Meadows, Megan A. Eckman and Rhuanito Soranz Ferrarezi

Revegetation intervention of drought-prone coal-mined spoils using Caragana korshinskii under variable water and nitrogen-phosphorus resources

Rana Roy, Mohammad Golam Mostofa, Jinxin Wang, Dario Fornara, Tanwne Sarker and Ruiqi Zhang

Volume 245, issue C, 2021

Effects of oxygenated brackish water on germination and growth characteristics of wheat

Mengjie Zhu, Quanjiu Wang, Yan Sun and Jihong Zhang

Exogenous plant growth regulators/plant growth promoting bacteria roles in mitigating water-deficit stress on chicory (Cichorium pumilum Jacq.) at a physiological level

Vahid Sarabi and Elham Arjmand-Ghajur

Temporal variability of infiltration and roughness coefficients and furrow irrigation performance under different inflow rates

Reza Mazarei, Amir Soltani Mohammadi, Hamed Ebrahimian and Abd Ali Naseri

Research into the super-absorbent polymers on agricultural water

Fujin Ai, Xiuzhao Yin, Ruochi Hu, Hailing Ma and Wei Liu

Greenhouse cultivation feasibility using condensation irrigation (studied plant: Basil)

Hossein Arabnejad, Farhad Mirzaei and Hamideh Noory

Unintended consequences to groundwater from improved irrigation efficiency: Lessons from the Hinds-Rangitata Plain, New Zealand

William E. Dench and Leanne K. Morgan

Conditioning point and gridded weather data under aridity conditions for calculation of reference evapotranspiration

Richard G. Allen, Ramesh Dhungel, Bibha Dhungana, Justin Huntington, Ayse Kilic and Charles Morton

Hole irrigation process simulation using a soil water dynamical model with parameter inversion method

Zhanpeng Pan, Yu Tong, Jingming Hou, Jian Zheng, Yongde Kang, Yan Wang and Changchong Cao

Estimation of daily maize transpiration using support vector machines, extreme gradient boosting, artificial and deep neural networks models

Junliang Fan, Jing Zheng, Lifeng Wu and Fucang Zhang

The impact of water-pricing policies on water productivity: Evidence of agriculture sector in Iran

Omid Zamani, Hossein Azadi, Seyed Abolghasem Mortazavi, Hamid Balali, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam and Lubos Jurik

Soil moisture based deficit irrigation management for sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) in semiarid environment

S.K. Dingre and S.D. Gorantiwar

Poly-γ-glutamic acid improves water-stable aggregates, nitrogen and phosphorus uptake efficiency, water-fertilizer productivity, and economic benefit in barren desertified soils of Northwest China

Jiaping Liang and Wenjuan Shi

Numerical model to predict water temperature distribution in a paddy rice field

Kazuhiro Nishida, Shuichiro Yoshida and Sho Shiozawa

Performance evaluation of solar PV pumping system for providing irrigation through micro-irrigation techniques using surface water resources in hot arid region of India

Priyabrata Santra

Spatial-temporal trends of rainfall erosivity and its implication for sustainable agriculture in the Wei River Basin of China

Yan Zhang, Yang Chao, Ruirui Fan, Feier Ren, Bin Qi, Kai Ji and Bin Xu

New machine learning approaches to improve reference evapotranspiration estimates using intra-daily temperature-based variables in a semi-arid region of Spain

Juan Antonio Bellido-Jiménez, Javier Estévez and Amanda Penélope García-Marín

Alternating wide ridges and narrow furrows with film mulching improves soil hydrothermal conditions and maize water use efficiency in dry sub-humid regions

Chenxiao Duan, Guangjie Chen, Yajin Hu, Shufang Wu, Hao Feng and Dong, Qin’ge

Soil hydro-thermal characteristics, maize yield and water use efficiency as affected by different biodegradable film mulching patterns in a rain-fed semi-arid area of China

Xiaobo Gu, Huanjie Cai, Heng Fang, Pengpeng Chen, Yupeng Li and Yuannong Li

Yield and water productivity responses of olive trees (cv. Manzanilla) to post-harvest deficit irrigation in a non-Mediterranean climate

L. Martín Agüero Alcaras, M. Cecilia Rousseaux and Peter S. Searles

Drought priming improved water status, photosynthesis and water productivity of cowpea during post-anthesis drought stress

Moussa Tankari, Chao Wang, Haiyang Ma, Xiangnan Li, Li Li, Rajesh Kumar Soothar, Ningbo Cui, Mainassara Zaman-Allah, Weiping Hao, Fulai Liu and Yaosheng Wang

Modified water-nitrogen productivity function based on response of water sensitive index to nitrogen for hybrid maize under drip fertigation

Yufeng Wang, Shaozhong Kang, Fusheng Li and Xiaotao Zhang

New indexes to evaluate the effect of segmental variations of distributed ditches on their pollutant retention in agricultural landscapes

Z. Jia, X. Yin, W. Luo, J. Zou and C. Chen

Land productivity, irrigation water use efficiency and fruit quality under various plastic mulch colors and irrigation regimes of strawberry in the eastern Mediterranean region of Turkey

Mehmet Ali Sarıdaş, Burçak Kapur, Eser Çeliktopuz, Yeşim Şahiner and Sevgi Paydaş Kargı

Effects of irrigation on oil palm transpiration during ENSO-induced drought in the Brazilian Eastern Amazon

Mauro Brum, Rafael S. Oliveira, Jose Gutiérrez López, Julian Licata, Thomas Pypker, Gilson Sanchez Chia, Ricardo Salles Tinôco and Heidi Asbjornsen

Optimizing irrigation and nitrogen management strategy to trade off yield, crop water productivity, nitrogen use efficiency and fruit quality of greenhouse grown tomato

Huanhuan Li, Hao Liu, Xuewen Gong, Shuang Li, Jie Pang, Zhifang Chen and Jingsheng Sun

Adaptative DNN emulator-enabled multi-objective optimization to manage aquifer−sea flux interactions in a regional coastal aquifer

Xiayang Yu, J. Sreekanth, Tao Cui, Trevor Pickett and Pei Xin

Evaluation of hydroponic systems for the cultivation of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L., var. Longifolia) and comparison with protected soil-based cultivation

Maliqa Majid, Junaid N. Khan, Qazi Muneeb Ahmad Shah, Khalid Z. Masoodi, Baseerat Afroza and Saqib Parvaze

Optimizing irrigation schedule in a large agricultural region under different hydrologic scenarios

Daxin Guo, Jørgen Eivind Olesen, Kiril Manevski and Xiaoyi Ma

Delayed irrigation: An approach to enhance crop water productivity and to investigate its effects on potato yield and growth parameters

Muhammad Sohail Waqas, Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema, Saddam Hussain, Muhammad Kaleem Ullah and Muhammad Mazhar Iqbal

Evaluation of regulated deficit irrigation strategies for oil olives: A case study for two modern Israeli cultivars

Alon Ben-Gal, Yonatan Ron, Uri Yermiyahu, Isaac Zipori, Sireen Naoum and Arnon Dag

Simulation and evaluation of agricultural water distribution and delivery systems with a Hybrid Bayesian network model

Afsaneh Kaghazchi, S. Mehdy Hashemy Shahdany and Abbas Roozbahani

Effects of different concentrations of dissolved oxygen on the growth, photosynthesis, yield and quality of greenhouse tomatoes and changes in soil microorganisms

Zan Ouyang, Juncang Tian, Xinfang Yan and Hui Shen

Biochar amendment improves shoot biomass of tomato seedlings and sustains water relations and leaf gas exchange rates under different irrigation and nitrogen regimes

Lili Guo, Marie Louise Bornø, Wenquan Niu and Fulai Liu

Comparison of two canopy resistance models to estimate evapotranspiration for tea and wheat in southeast China

Haofang Yan, Jianjun Yu, Chuan Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Song Huang and Jiamin Ma

Achieving sustainable soil and water protection: The perspective of agricultural water price regulation on environmental protection

Lichen Chou, Jie Dai, Xiaoyan Qian, Aliakbar Karimipour and Xuping Zheng

The feasibility of hand-held thermal and UAV-based multispectral imaging for canopy water status assessment and yield prediction of irrigated African eggplant (Solanum aethopicum L)

Paul Reuben Mwinuka, Boniface P. Mbilinyi, Winfred B. Mbungu, Sixbert K. Mourice, H.F. Mahoo and Petra Schmitter

Parameterization of the AquaCrop model for simulating table grapes growth and water productivity in an arid region of Mexico

S. Er-Raki, E. Bouras, J.C. Rodriguez, C.J. Watts, C. Lizarraga-Celaya and A. Chehbouni

Developing irrigation water conservation strategies for hybrid bermudagrass using an evapotranspiration-based smart irrigation controller in inland southern California

Amir Haghverdi, Amninder Singh, Anish Sapkota, Maggie Reiter and Somayeh Ghodsi

Establishing an ecological forest system of salt-tolerant plants in heavily saline wasteland using the drip-irrigation reclamation method

Shide Dong, Shuqin Wan, Yaohu Kang and Xiaobin Li

Quantifying and managing the water-energy-food nexus in dry regions food insecurity: New methods and evidence

Reza Radmehr, Mohammad Ghorbani and Ali Naghi Ziaei

The use of treated brewery effluent for salt tolerant crop irrigation

Nyiko C. Mabasa, Clifford L.W. Jones and Mark Laing

Tillage practices affects the grain filling of inferior kernel of summer maize by regulating soil water content and photosynthetic capacity

Lichao Zhai, Zhanbiao Wang, Shijia Song, Lihua Zhang, Zhengbin Zhang and Xiuling Jia

Closing yield and harvest area gaps to mitigate water scarcity related to China’s rice production

Kang Lan, Xin Chen, Bradley G. Ridoutt, Jing Huang and Laura Scherer

Does ENSO strongly affect rice yield and water application in Northeast China?

Erjing Guo, Xiaoguang Yang, Tao Li, Tianyi Zhang, Lloyed Ted Wilson, Xiaoyu Wang, Dongxiao Zheng and Yubin Yang

Hydroponic production of ‘Biquinho’ pepper with brackish water

Maria Augusta Amorim Bione, Tales Miler Soares, Alide Mitsue Watanabe Cova, Vital Pedro da Silva Paz, Hans Raj Gheyi, Maria Raphaela Severo Rafael, Francisco José Nunes Modesto, Jeferson da Anunciação Santana and Bruno Santos Louzado das Neves

Effects of partial root-zone drying on alfalfa growth, yield and quality under subsurface drip irrigation

Yadong Wang, Chun Liu, Pengfei Cui and Derong Su

Recognition of different yield potentials among rain-fed wheat fields before harvest using remote sensing

Hamed Sabzchi-Dehkharghani, Amir Hossein Nazemi, Ali Ashraf Sadraddini, Abolfazl Majnooni-Heris and Asim Biswas

A kriging-based adaptive global optimization method with generalized expected improvement and its application in numerical simulation and crop evapotranspiration

Yaohui Li, Junjun Shi, Hui Cen, Jingfang Shen and Yanpu Chao

A novel kernel extreme learning machine model coupled with K-means clustering and firefly algorithm for estimating monthly reference evapotranspiration in parallel computation

Lifeng Wu, Youwen Peng, Junliang Fan, Yicheng Wang and Guomin Huang

Groundwater quality forecasting using machine learning algorithms for irrigation purposes

Ali El Bilali, Abdeslam Taleb and Youssef Brouziyne

Contribution of understorey vegetation to evapotranspiration partitioning in apple orchards under Mediterranean climatic conditions in South Africa

Z. Ntshidi, S. Dzikiti, D. Mazvimavi and N.T. Mobe

Pre-sowing soil water conditions and water conservation measures affecting the yield and water productivity of summer maize

Qin Fang, Yanzhe Wang, Fasilate Uwimpaye, Zongzheng Yan, Lu Li, Xiuwei Liu and Liwei Shao

Raised beds modulate physiological responses, yield and water use efficiency of wheat (Triticum aestivum L) under deficit irrigation

Mohamed O.A. Rady, Wael M. Semida, Saad.M. Howladar and Taia A. Abd El-Mageed

Irrigation water resources optimization with consideration of the regional agro-hydrological process of crop growth and multiple uncertainties

Youzhi Wang and Ping Guo

Increased carbon uptake under elevated CO2 concentration enhances water-use efficiency of C4 broomcorn millet under drought

Dongsheng Zhang, Ali Li, Shu Kee Lam, Ping Li, Yuzheng Zong, Zhiqiang Gao and Xingyu Hao

Development of smart irrigation systems based on real-time soil moisture data in a greenhouse: Proof of concept

Renkuan Liao, Shirui Zhang, Xin Zhang, Mingfei Wang, Huarui Wu and Lili Zhangzhong

Potential effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in mitigating the salinity of treated wastewater in young olive plants (Olea europaea L. cv. Chetoui)

Ameni Ben Hassena, Mohamed Zouari, Lina Trabelsi, Raphaël Decou, Fathi Ben Amar, Anissa Chaari, Nabil Soua, Pascal Labrousse, Wahid Khabou and Nacim Zouari

Drought monitoring of the maize planting areas in Northeast and North China Plain

Wei Wan, Zhong Liu, Kejiang Li, Guiman Wang, Hanqing Wu and Qingyun Wang

Identifying the dominant effects of climate and land use change on soil water balance in deep loessial vadose zone

Bingbing Li, Asim Biswas, Yunqiang Wang and Zhi Li

Comparative analyses of variable and fixed rate irrigation and nitrogen management for maize in different soil types: Part I. Impact on soil-water dynamics and crop evapotranspiration

Vasudha Sharma and Suat Irmak

Water distributions of low-pressure sprinklers as affected by the maize canopy under a centre pivot irrigation system

Xin Hui, Yudong Zheng and Haijun Yan

Water balance trends in irrigated canal commands and its implications for sustainable water management in Pakistan: Evidence from 1981 to 2012

Mobin-ud-Din Ahmad, Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia, Joel P. Stewart and John M. Kirby

A hybrid CNN-GRU model for predicting soil moisture in maize root zone

Jingxin Yu, Xin Zhang, Linlin Xu, Jing Dong and Lili Zhangzhong

Determining optimal deficit irrigation and fertilization to increase mango yield, quality, and WUE in a dry hot environment based on TOPSIS

Xiaogang Liu, Youliang Peng, Qiliang Yang, Xiukang Wang and Ningbo Cui

Soil water/salt balance and water productivity of typical irrigation schedules for cotton under film mulched drip irrigation in northern Xinjiang

Songrui Ning, Beibei Zhou, Jianchu Shi and Quanjiu Wang

Concurrent variability of soil moisture and apparent electrical conductivity in the proximity of olive trees

Gonzalo Martínez, Ana M. Laguna, Juan Vicente Giráldez and Karl Vanderlinden

Response of different organic mulch treatments on yield and quality of Camellia oleifera

Hong-Lian Ye, Zhi-Gang Chen, Ting-Ting Jia, Qian-Wei Su and Shu-Chai Su

Ridge-furrow configuration significantly improves soil water availability, crop water use efficiency, and grain yield in dryland agroecosystems of the Loess Plateau

Guangxin Zhang, Fei Mo, Farooq Shah, Wenhui Meng, Yuncheng Liao and Juan Han

Irrigation water resources management under uncertainty: An interval nonlinear double-sided fuzzy chance-constrained programming approach

Chenglong Zhang, Ping Guo and Zailin Huo

Effects of different drip irrigation modes on water use efficiency of pear trees in Northern China

Linlin Wang, Wenyong Wu, Juan Xiao, Qiannan Huang and Yaqi Hu

Optimization of water and fertilizer management improves yield, water, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium uptake and use efficiency of cotton under drip fertigation

Haidong Wang, Lifeng Wu, Xiukang Wang, Shaohui Zhang, Minghui Cheng, Hao Feng, Junliang Fan, Fucang Zhang and Youzhen Xiang

Soil aeration using air injection in a citrus orchard with shallow groundwater

Ilan Ben-Noah, Ido Nitsan, Ben Cohen, Guy Kaplan and Shmulik P. Friedman

Genotype-by-environment interaction analysis for grain yield of barley genotypes under dryland conditions and the role of monthly rainfall

Farhad Ahakpaz, Hossein Abdi, Elyas Neyestani, Ali Hesami, Behrouz Mohammadi, Kourosh Nader Mahmoudi, Gholamreza Abedi-Asl, Mohammad Reza Jazayeri Noshabadi, Farzad Ahakpaz and Hadi Alipour

How does film mulching modify available energy, evapotranspiration, and crop coefficient during the seed–maize growing season in northwest China?

Yin Zhao, Xiaomin Mao, Manoj K. Shukla, Fei Tian, Mengjie Hou, Tong Zhang and Sien Li

Sustaining yield and mitigating methane emissions from rice production with plastic film mulching technique

Jianliang Liu, Xinya Huang, Haibo Jiang and Huai Chen