Substrate water status and evapotranspiration irrigation scheduling in heterogenous container nursery crops

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-40

  Incrocci, Luca ^a   Marzialetti, Paolo ^b   Incrocci, Giorgio ^a   Di Vita, Andrea ^a   Balendonck, Jos ^c   Bibbiani, Carlo ^a   Spagnol, Serafino ^d   Pardossi, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Centro Sperimentale Vivaismo Ce:SpeVi   (Italy)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Spagnol Greenhouse Technology Ltd ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Crop coefficient; Evapotranspiration model; Hardy ornamental nursery stocks; Nutrient emission; Soil moisture sensor; Water runoff

Indexed keywords

CROP COEFFICIENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MODELING; HARDY ORNAMENTAL NURSERY STOCKS; NUTRIENT EMISSIONS; SOIL MOISTURE SENSORS; WATER RUNOFF;

CONTAINERS; CROPS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE METERS; NUTRIENTS; SCHEDULING; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

IRRIGATION;

AUTOMATION; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; CROP PRODUCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWTH RATE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE; SUBSTRATE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER CONTENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84885074901     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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