Dear Colleagues,

Understanding hydrological processes and managing water resources is becoming increasingly crucial in agroecosystems, especially because of climate change and increasingly erratic weather on one hand and water and food security and environmental sustainability on the other hand. To date, scientific advances in irrigated, water-limited, or rainfed agricultural production systems continue to understand the critical roles and mechanisms of hydrological processes in agricultural lands across different climates and spatial scales. New ideas in hydrological understanding and applications for sustainable agricultural land and water management are increasingly emerging worldwide because of water and food security challenges, societal needs, and technological advances and opportunities.

This Special Issue intends to cover the state-of-the-art and recent scientific developments and to identify knowledge gaps and research challenges in different important and challenging aspects of hydrological understanding and applications to solve agricultural land and water management as well as environmental sustainability issues in agricultural production systems. All contributions or article types (original research, reviews, technical notes, and communication) providing recent discoveries and new insights into hydrological understanding for agricultural land and water conservation and management are encouraged. Theoretical, methodological, meta-analysis, modeling, and case study papers are welcome.

Dr. Sanjit Deb
Dr. Xiuli Zhong
Guest Editors

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• agricultural water management
• soil hydrology
• vadose zone hydrology
• soil physics
• hydrology of irrigated agriculture
• agricultural drainage
• water use efficiency
• soil–plant–water–atmosphere relationship
• hydrological modeling, integrated crop-hydrologic modeling
• ecohydrology
• dryland agriculture
• agricultural land use changes
• agricultural hydrology
• climate change