Land and Water Management Strategies for the Improvement of Crop Production

Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 291-313

  Ondrasek, Gabrijel ^a   Rengel, Zed ^b   Petosic, Dragutin ^a   Filipovic, Vilim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Rain fed and irrigated cropping; Water stress; Water use efficiency; Waterlogging

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; DRAINAGE; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFICIENCY; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES; INSUFFICIENT INVESTMENTS; LAND AND WATER MANAGEMENT; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER TABLES; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL; WATER STRESS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WATERLOGGING;

CROPS;

EID: 84942090613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800875-1.00013-2     Document Type: Chapter

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