supported by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and Spanish National Institute for Agricultural Research and Experimentation(MINECOINIA)(No.RTA2017-88-C3-3).
Rainfed agricultural systems in semiarid Mediterranean environments are subject to erratic but often heavy rainfall events.As an agronomic practice,fallow periods can be included even within the existing European Unio...
supported by the Subsurface Environment Management Projects funded by the Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute,Korea(No.2020002440005)。
Sorption by soil organic matter(SOM)is considered the most important process affecting the bioavailability of hydrophobic organic chemicals(HOCs)in soil.The sorption capacity of SOM for HOCs is affected by many enviro...
financial assistance provided for this study and Hydra Sensor Technologies International Ltd., South Africa for supplying the HydraSCOUT probes used in the research
Dear Editor,Accurate measurement of volumetric soil water content(θ_v)is essential for efficient soil water management.HydraSCOUT(HS)probes are capacitance-type probes forθ_v measurement with high accuracy,but requi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51579213);the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFC0403303)
Water-repellent(WR) soil greatly influences infiltration behavior. This research determined the impacts of WR levels of silt loam soil layer during infiltration. Three column scenarios were utilized, including homogen...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41371115);the 100 Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZXC2-YW-BR-12)
Water shortage is a key constraint to sustainable agricultural production in Xinjiang, Northwest China. To enhance the use efficiency of valuable irrigation water resources, a 2-year experiment(2010–2011) was conduct...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41471189);the Youth Science and Technology New Star Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China (No. 2013KJXX-09);the CAS "Light of West China" Program;the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS
Negative soil water balance (i.e., water input 〈 water output) can lead to soil desiccation and subsequently the occurrence of a dried soil layer (DSL). The DSLs are generally studied at a specific sampling depth...
Supported by the German Research Foundation(DFG)(No.Forschergruppe 536);the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
In the past few decades, the increase in grazing intensity has led to soil degradation and desertification in Inner Mongolia grassland, China, due to population growth and shift in the socio-economic system. Two sites...
Supported by the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams;the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.KSCX1-YW-09-07);the National Natural Science Foundationof China (No.40671083)
Knowledge of plant responses to soil water availability is essential for the development of effcient irrigation strategies.However,notably different results have been obtained in the past on the responses of various p...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 50879041 and 50939004);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of the Ministry of Education of China (Nos. 06-0059 and 07-0814)
To predict soil water variation in the crop root zone, a general exponential recession (GER) model was developed to depict the recession process of soil water storage. Incorporating the GER model into the mass balan...
Supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program in the 11th Five-Year Plan of China (Nos.2008BADA4B03 and 2009BADB3B07)
Soil water-retention characteristics at measurement scales are generally different from those at application scales, and there is scale disparity between them and soil physical properties. The relationships between tw...