Long-term monitoring of rainfed wheat yield and soil water at the loess plateau reveals low water use efficiency

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Qin, Wei ^a,b   Chi, Baoliang ^a   Oenema, Oene ^b  

^a Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (China)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC; RAIN;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLUID BALANCE; HARVEST; MULCH; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT WATER USE; SOIL EVAPORATION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STRAW; WINTER WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; TRITICUM; WATER;

EID: 84896707876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078828     Document Type: Article

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