Potential impacts of water harvesting and ecological sanitation on crop yield, evaporation and river flow regimes in the Thukela River basin, South Africa

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1113-1124

  Andersson, Jafet C M ^a,b   Zehnder, Alexander J B ^c,d   Rockström, Johan ^e,f   Yang, Hong ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Alberta Water Research Institute AWRI   (Canada)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dry spell; Evapotranspiration; Resilience; Water productivity

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CROP GROWTH; CROP YIELD; DRY-SPELL; ECOLOGICAL SANITATION; EVAPORATIVE FLUX; FERTILISATION; HIGH-NITROGEN; HUMAN URINE; IN-SITU; LOW FLOW; MAIZE YIELD; MOISTURE ENHANCEMENTS; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RESILIENCE; RETURN FLOW; RIVER BASINS; RIVER FLOW; SHALLOW AQUIFERS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SOIL FERTILITY; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME AND SPACE; WATER HARVESTING; WATER PRODUCTIVITY; YIELD INCREASE;

AQUIFERS; CROPS; ECOLOGY; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

TRANSPIRATION;

CROP YIELD; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODING; FLOW PATTERN; HARVESTING; MAIZE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RIVER BASIN; RIVER FLOW; SANITATION; SMALLHOLDER; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; URINE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; THUKELA BASIN;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79955089401     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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