Particle-size effects on soil temperature, evaporation, water use efficiency and watermelon yield in fields mulched with gravel and sand in semi-arid Loess Plateau of northwest China

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 917-923

  Xie, Zhongkui ^a   Wang, Yajun ^a   Cheng, Guodong ^a   Malhi, Sukhdev S ^b   Vera, Cecil L ^b   Guo, Zhihong ^a   Zhang, Yubao ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gravel sand mulch; Particle size; Soil temperature; Water use efficiency; Watermelon

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CITRULLUS LANATUS; DIFFERENT SIZES; EFFECTIVE PRACTICES; GRAVEL MULCH; IN-FIELD; LARGE-SIZE PARTICLES; LOESS PLATEAU; MESH SIZE; NORTHWEST CHINA; OPTIMAL RESULTS; SEMI ARID; SIZE EFFECTS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WATERMELON;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; GRAVEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; SAND; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; VAPORS; WATER SUPPLY;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

CROP YIELD; DICOTYLEDON; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LOESS; MULCHING; PARTICLE SIZE; PLATEAU; POROSITY; SAND AND GRAVEL; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WATER USE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CHINA;

CITRULLUS LANATUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS;

EID: 77949275226     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.01.023     Document Type: Article

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