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Water balance affects foliar and soil nutrients differently
Water balance influences soil development, and consequently plant communities, by driving weathering of soil minerals and leaching of plant nutrients...
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Toward automated irrigation management with integrated crop water stress index and spatial soil water balance
Decision support systems intended for precision irrigation aim at reducing irrigation applications while optimizing crop yield to achieve maximum...
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How Can Apparent Soil Water Retention Capacity Be Analyzed?
This lab activity focuses on determining the water-holding capacity of different soil textures using a simple filtration method. Theoretical...
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Soil Water and Plant Growth
Water is the key input in agriculture. Plants require water continuously from germination until maturity and that too in huge amounts. All the growth...
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Soil, Water and Nutrients
This Chapter provides an introduction to basic elements of soil science, from an understanding of the soil profile, its develop and its importance to...
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Modelling Soil Water Dynamics
The International Society of Precision Agriculture defined precision agriculture as follows: ‘Precision Agriculture is a management strategy that...
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Soil Water Management
Freshwater is essential to human survival but a finite resource. Only about 2.5% of the world’s total volume of water is freshwater, and the...
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Effects of Organic Manure and Biochar-Based Fertilizer Application on Soil Water and Salt Transport in Brackish Water Irrigated Soil Profile
It is uncertain how soil amendments (organic manure and biochar-based fertilizer) affect soil water and salt movement below the root zone under...
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Droughts impede water balance recovery from fires in the Western United States
A steady rise in fires in the Western United States, coincident with intensifying droughts, imparts substantial modifications to the underlying...
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Soil and Water Management
Soil is one of the most fundamental and basic resources. Although erroneously dubbed as “dirt” or sometimes perceived as something of insignificant...
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Hydrologic Measurements and the Water Balance
Most hydrology measurements involving input and output analysis use small catchments because long-term measurement is a feasible proposition. The...
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Crop coefficients of natural wetlands and riparian vegetation to compute ecosystem evapotranspiration and the water balance
Wetlands, namely the riparian ones, play a major role in landscape and water resources functionalities and provide enormous opportunities for...
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Long-term nitrogen balance of an irrigated no-till soil-corn system
We conducted a long-term nitrogen (N) fertilizer study in an irrigated no-till continuous corn system to assess the effects of N rates on N losses, N...
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Morphological, physiological and carbon balance response of Eucalyptus genotypes under water stress
Water stress is considered one of the main environmental factors that limit survival and productivity of Eucalyptus plantations. Identifying...
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The Effect of the Shape of Water Distribution Bed Irrigation on Nutritional Balance Status and Water Productivity of Pistachio Trees
Severe environmental stress such as drought and soil salinity and nutrient deprivation cause reproductive disorders in pistachio trees. This study...
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Assessing accuracy of crop water stress inversion of soil water content all day long
There is growing interest in using canopy temperature (Tc), including crop water Stress index (CWSI), for irrigation management. However, Tc varies...
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The Nitrogen Balance in the Soil–Plant Cover of Arid Ecosystems in the Northwestern Caspian Region
AbstractThe research data on the accumulation and translocation of phytomass by blocks of plant matter and on nitrogen concentration and reserves are...
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Soil Water Repellency in Reforested Sandy Soils
Agriculture on sandy soils in Poland was not economical, and in the 1990s, cultivation in these areas was largely abandoned. Consequently, they were...
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Impact of Climate Change on the Soil Water Balance Components in the Area of Sanski Most (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Given that global climate change affects the agricultural sector, often negatively affecting yields and food quality, it is essential to understand...
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Early season irrigation detection and evapotranspiration modeling of winter vegetables based on Planet satellite using water and energy balance algorithm in lower Colorado basin
Water shortages in the Western United States will continue to be one of the foremost American agricultural challenges in the coming years. As...
