Application of water footprint combined with a unified virtual crop pattern to evaluate crop water productivity in grain production in China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 497-498, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-9

  Wang, Y B ^a,b   Wu, P T ^a   Engel, B A ^b   Sun, S K ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Crop pattern; Crop water productivity; Irrigation efficiency; Water footprint; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); IRRIGATION; PRODUCTIVITY; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CHINA; CROP WATER PRODUCTIVITY; IRRIGATION EFFICIENCY; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CROPS;

CEREAL; CROP PRODUCTION; IRRIGATION; MAIZE; RICE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHINA; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP WATER PRODUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAIN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MAIZE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RICE; VIRTUAL CROP PATTERN; VIRTUAL REALITY; WATER FOOTPRINT; CATERING SERVICE; CEREAL; CROP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER SUPPLY;

CHINA;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; CEREALS; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FOOD SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84906314410     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.07.089     Document Type: Article

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