Efficient management of irrigation water is fundamental in agriculture to reduce the environmental impacts and to increase the sustainability of crop production. The availability of adequate tools and methodologies to easily identify the crop water status in operating conditions is therefore crucial. This work aimed to assess the reliability of indices derived from imaging techniques—thermal in...

Rhizosphere soil can play a central role in the maintenance of the soil–plant system and influencing the biogeochemistry of forest ecosystems. However, rhizospheric studies in situ to understand the ecosystem functions are still lacking. Therefore, the objectives of the present study were to examine the differences in the chemical properties such as the pH, organic C, exchangeable base cations ...

The Soil-Water Characteristic Curve (SWCC) is an important soil function relating the water content of a soil to soil suction. Many unsaturated soil properties (or soil property functions) can be related to the water content versus suction relationship of a soil. Hydraulic conductivity, shear strength, chemical diffusivity, water storage, unfrozen volumetric water content, specific heat, and th...

runoff production process is a key hydrological component illustrating watersheds health. water infiltration in soil is also one of the determinant factors on runoff generation for which many techniques were used to improve it. however, the role of microorganisms for the improvement of water infiltration in soil has been less considered. the present study therefore tried to investigate the effe...

There is a need to optimize water-nitrogen (N) applications to increase seed cotton yield and water use efficiency (WUE) under a mulch drip irrigation system. This study evaluated the effects of four water regimes [moderate drip irrigation from the third-leaf to the boll-opening stage (W1), deficit drip irrigation from the third-leaf to the flowering stage and sufficient drip irrigation thereaf...

objective: the main purpose of this research is review of principles, concepts, problems and solutions of soil ethic. methods: in this research by descriptive method and delphi technique was used for identifying soil ethical concepts, soil ethical principles, problems and difficulties of soil ethics in iran and al around the world and suggestions for improvement of soil ethics in iran. the popu...

Soil CO2 efflux (Fsoil ) is the largest source of carbon from forests and reflects primary productivity as well as how carbon is allocated within forest ecosystems. Through early stages of stand development, both elevated [CO2] and availability of soil nitrogen (N; sum of mineralization, deposition, and fixation) have been shown to increase gross primary productivity, but the long-term effects ...