Conventional flooding irrigation causes an overuse of nitrogen fertilizer and low nitrogen use efficiency in intensively used solar greenhouse vegetable production

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 144, Issue , 2014, Pages 11-19

  Fan, Zhaobo ^a   Lin, Shan ^a   Zhang, Xiaoman ^a,b   Jiang, Zengming ^a   Yang, Kaichang ^a   Jian, Dandan ^a   Chen, Yongzhi ^b   Li, Junliang ^c   Chen, Qing ^a   Wang, Jingguo ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Quality Monitoring for Vegetable Shouguang Municipal ^*  (China)

^c QINGDAO AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conventional flooding irrigation; Drip irrigation; Nitrate leaching; Solar greenhouse; Straw application; Tomato

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FLOODS; FRUITS; GREENHOUSES; GROUNDWATER; LEACHING; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SOILS; SOLAR HEATING; VEGETABLES;

DRIP IRRIGATION; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; NITRATE LEACHING; NITROGEN-USE EFFICIENCY; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON CONTENT; SOLAR GREENHOUSE; TOMATO; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

IRRIGATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROWING SEASON; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; IRRIGATION; NUTRIENT USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETABLE;

CHINA;

EID: 84902078022     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2014.05.010     Document Type: Article

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