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Zhaoxin Wang, Tiejun Wang and Yonggen Zhang
Knowledge of both state (e.g., soil moisture) and flux (e.g., actual evapotranspiration (ETa) and groundwater recharge (GR)) hydrological variables across vadose zones is critical for understanding ecohydrological and land-surface processes. In this stud...
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Jianzhao Liu, Liping Gao, Fenghui Yuan, Yuedong Guo and Xiaofeng Xu
Soil water shortage is a critical issue for the Southwest US (SWUS), the typical arid region that has experienced severe droughts over the past decades, primarily caused by climate change. However, it is still not quantitatively understood how soil water...
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Guangyu Jiang and Zhongjing Wang
Water cycles exist in all processes of water resources utilization, including water-saving irrigation. Due to the complex water cycle process of irrigation, the ecological effects and safety of large-scale water-saving irrigation have received increasing...
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Salah Basem Ajjur and Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Natural groundwater recharge (GR) assessment depends on several hydrogeological and climatic inputs, where uncertainty is inevitable. Assessing how inputs? uncertainty affects GR estimation is important; however, it remains unclear in arid areas. This st...
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Muawia Dafalla and Ahmed M. Al-Mahbashi
The major problematic soils in semi-arid regions include expansive soils and collapsible soils. These two types of soils cause problems and are hazardous for buildings when moisture is introduced following a dry or semi-dry season. In order to assess the...
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Murali K. Darapuneni, Leonard M. Lauriault, Gasper K. Martinez, Koffi Djaman, Kevin A. Lombard and Syam K. Dodla
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) requires a large amount of potassium (K) for maintaining forage yield and stand persistence. Therefore, soil inherently low in K levels must be supplemented with K fertilizers. Although several commercial K fertilizers are av...
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Yalin Gao, Jinghai Wang, Yanlin Ma, Minhua Yin, Qiong Jia, Rongrong Tian, Yanxia Kang, Guangping Qi, Chen Wang, Yuanbo Jiang and Haiyan Li
Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum L.) production in arid and semi-arid areas is drastically affected by the low utilization rate of soil and water resources and the irrational application of water and nitrogen fertilizers. Thus, this study explored a high-yield...
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Tianbao Huang, Zhenhua Wang, Li Guo, Haiqiang Li, Mingdong Tan, Jie Zou, Rui Zong and Yam Prasad Dhital
The evaluation of soil particle composition and salt dynamics is essential for promoting the sustainable development of oasis agriculture in arid regions under long-term mulched drip irrigation (MDI). In this study, we employed the space-for-time substit...
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Ruowen Qiang, Meng Wang, Qian Li, Yingjie Li, Huixian Sun, Wenyu Liang, Cuilan Li, Jinjing Zhang and Hang Liu
Denitrification is a key process in soil available nitrogen (N) loss. However, the effects of different water-saving irrigation systems on soil N components and denitrifying bacterial communities are still unclear. In this study, quantitative fluorescenc...
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Kaiqi Yang, Jian Hu, Yunzhuo Ren, Zhiao Zhang, Mei Tang, Zhenkun Shang, Qing Zhen and Jiyong Zheng
The efficient use of organic amendment (OM) is considered an economic, environmental and sustainable practice to improve soil quality, especially the accumulation of organic carbon (C) and water use efficiency (WUE) in dryland agriculture. However, the e...
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