Standard single and basal crop coefficients for field crops. Updates and advances to the FAO56 crop water requirements method

LS Pereira, P Paredes, DJ Hunsaker… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study reviews the abundant research on FAO56 crop coefficients, published following
introduction of the FAO56 paper in 1998. The primary goal was to evaluate, update, and …

Updated single and dual crop coefficients for tree and vine fruit crops

G Rallo, TA Paço, P Paredes, À Puig-Sirera… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study reviews the research on the FAO56 crop coefficients of fruit trees and
vines performed over the past twenty years. The main objective was to update information …

Field-scale crop water consumption estimates reveal potential water savings in California agriculture

A Boser, K Caylor, A Larsen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Efficiently managing agricultural irrigation is vital for food security today and into the future
under climate change. Yet, evaluating agriculture's hydrological impacts and strategies to …

An integrated strategy for improving water use efficiency by understanding physiological mechanisms of crops responding to water deficit: Present and prospect

J Kang, X Hao, H Zhou, R Ding - Agricultural Water Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Water use efficiency (WUE), defined as the ratio of plant carbon gain to water use in various
spatio-temporal scales, is a complex indicator of physiological, agronomic, and engineering …

[HTML][HTML] Resolving the paradoxes of irrigation efficiency: Irrigated systems accounting analyses depletion-based water conservation for reallocation

BA Lankford - Agricultural Water Management, 2023 - Elsevier
The irrigation efficiency paradox says that raising the efficiency of irrigation systems, thereby
reducing return flows, either gives no change in water depletion or it raises depletion via …

Prediction of crop coefficients from fraction of ground cover and height: Practical application to vegetable, field and fruit crops with focus on parameterization

LS Pereira, P Paredes, F Melton, L Johnson… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
The A&P approach, developed by Allen and Pereira (2009), estimates single and basal crop
coefficients (K c and K cb) from the observed fraction of ground cover (fc) and crop height …

Water use efficiency across scales: from genes to landscapes

V Vadez, R Pilloni, A Grondin… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Water scarcity is already set to be one of the main issues of the 21st century, because of
competing needs between civil, industrial, and agricultural use. Agriculture is currently the …

Mulching effects on soil evaporation, crop evapotranspiration and crop coefficients: a review aimed at improved irrigation management

TB Ramos, H Darouich, LS Pereira - Irrigation Science, 2024 - Springer
Mulching is a widely adopted agronomic practice, often used as a water-saving strategy due
to its effectiveness in reducing soil evaporation. However, effects vary depending on the …

Single and basal crop coefficients for estimation of water use of tree and vine woody crops with consideration of fraction of ground cover, height, and training system …

LS Pereira, P Paredes, CM Oliveira, F Montoya… - Irrigation Science, 2023 - Springer
This paper reviews the research on the FAO56 single and basal crop coefficients of fruit
trees and vines performed over the past twenty-five years and focus on Mediterranean and …

[HTML][HTML] Water use and soil water balance of Mediterranean tree crops assessed with the SIMDualKc model in orchards of southern Portugal

TB Ramos, H Darouich, AR Oliveira… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Orchards consist of complex agricultural systems, with a variety of characteristics (planting
density, tree height, training system, canopy cover, irrigation method, interrow management) …