Modeling nitrogen and water management effects in a wheat-maize double-cropping system

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2232-2242

  Fang, Q ^a   Ma, L ^b   Yu, Q ^c   Malone, R W ^d   Saseendran, S A ^b   Ahuja, L R ^b  

^a QINGDAO AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d USDA ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LEACHING; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; PLANTS (BOTANY); RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER CONTENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

APPLICATION RATES; CROP PRODUCTIONS; CROP YIELDS; CROPPING SYSTEMS; DOUBLE CROPPING; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATIONS; FIELD CAPACITIES; FIELD STUDIES; GRAIN YIELDS; MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.); MANAGEMENT EFFECTS; NORTH CHINA PLAINS; PLANT GROWTHS; RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; ROOT ZONE WATER QUALITY MODELS; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL WATER CONTENTS; SOIL WATERS; WATER USES; WEATHER DATUMS; WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.);

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

NITROGEN; SOIL WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CROP PRODUCTION; CROPPING SYSTEM; FIELD STUDY; GRAIN YIELD; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LEACHING; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; SIMULATION; SOIL WATER CONTENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; TIME FACTORS; TRITICUM; WATER SUPPLY; ZEA MAYS;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57049180040     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2007.0601     Document Type: Article

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