Assessing the effects of water table depth on water use, soil salinity and wheat yield: Searching for a target depth for irrigated areas in the upper Yellow River basin

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 125, Issue , 2013, Pages 46-60

  Xu, Xu ^a   Huang, Guanhua ^a   Sun, Chen ^b   Pereira, Luis S ^c   Ramos, Tiago B ^c   Huang, Quanzhong ^a   Hao, Yuanyuan ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Capillary rise; Groundwater depth; Percolation; Soil salinity; SWAP; Water saving practices

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY RISE; GROUND WATER DEPTHS; SOIL SALINITY; SWAP; WATER-SAVING;

CULTIVATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IRRIGATION; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLVENTS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

GROUNDWATER;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CALIBRATION; CAPILLARITY; CROP YIELD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IRRIGATION; OSMOSIS; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER; WATER DEPTH; WATER TABLE; WATER USE; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84878386528     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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