Evapotranspiration and Plant Irrigation Strategies
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 46393
Special Issue Editors
Interests: evapotranspiration; transpiration; soil evaporation; sap flow; eddy covariance; water stress diagnosis; stress-indicator interpretation; irrigation scheduling; fluxes of water and heat around vegetation; ecohydrology
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Interests: agriculture; crop management; horticultural crops; irrigation; precision agriculture; remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of the journal Water will present the state of art of the factors (ecological, physiological, physical, agronomic, economic, genetic and socio-economic factors, etc.) affecting evapotranspiration and irrigation strategies. Appropriate and precise estimations of evapotranspiration (water consumed) and water supplied to crops (rainfall and irrigation) may contribute positively to food security and food safety, while contributing to climate change mitigation and the reduction of groundwater pollution.
Herewith a non-exhaustive list of topics related to this Special Issue (in alphabetical order):
- Crop coefficients estimations (traditional and innovative methods, as with remote sensing,
- Crop sensors for estimating crop water status,
- Economics of irrigation water management,
- Effective rainfall,
- Effects of reduced amount of soil organic matter on irrigation strategies,
- Genetic studies to improve water-use efficiency of cultivated crops for different purposes (agriculture, landscapes, land degradation, etc.).
- Irrigation management for specialty crops
- Irrigation management for urban horticulture,
- Irrigation water quality,
- Measuring soil moisture and soil water holding capacity,
- Partitioning of evapotranspiration in remote sensing-based models,
- Precision irrigation for farm sustainability and environmental protection,
- Soil conditioners and mulches for enhancing soil properties, in particular soil water availability,
- Solar fertigation and other environmentally-friendly irrigation methods, and
- Variable rate irrigation,
Each of the above topics may contribute in meeting crop demand for optimum water productivity. The Guest Editors are confident that scientists will join this Special Issue by submitting papers on “Evapotranspiration and Plant Irrigation Strategies”.
Prof. Dr. Maria Isabel Freire Ribeiro Ferreira
Prof. Dr. Arturo Alvino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Irrigation scheduling
- Irrigation planning
- Evapotranspiration
- Agronomy
- Plant-water relationship