Assessment of the Water Needs of Crops from the Perspective of Climate Change
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adaptation to climate change; drought vulnerability; groundwater management; mitigation of climate impact; land use change; measured aquifer recharge; overproduction; suitability; water crisis; water
Interests: crop production; crop modeling; climate change; in-situ plant measurements; leaf area measurement
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Interests: hydrological modeling; vadose zone; surface–groundwater interaction; natural water retention measures; ecosystem services
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Interests: agricultural water management; irrigation management; excess water hazard mapping; GIS-based technologies; soil–water–plant nexus; lysimeters research; land use rationalization
Interests: agricultural water managent; precision irrigation; irrigation scheduling; abiotic stress monitoring; drought monitoring; remote sensing in agriculture
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Assessing and providing the increasing water demand of crops within the context of climate change is one of the most imperative challenges of modern agriculture. From this view, a more profound understanding drivers, mechanisms and consequences of changing water needs is essential.
This Special Issue aims to collate cutting-edge research on spatially explicit models that simulate the patterns, processes, and outcomes of changing water cycles, as well as expose biochemical response to climate challenge. We also seek contributions that advance the methodological frontier and provide actionable insights for sustainable land use, landscape and water management, and exploring synergies of provisioning and regulating ecosystem services
We welcome original research, reviews, and case studies focusing on development of novel modeling frameworks and statistical analyses of changing hydrological conditions; scenario exploration for sustainable water use; and studies that effectively bridge the science–policy gap for informed decision-making.
Dr. Zsolt Pinke
Dr. Pokovai Klára
Dr. Zsolt Kozma
Dr. Csaba Bozán
Prof. Dr. Attila Nagy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adaptation to climate change
- drought vulnerability
- groundwater management
- irrigation productivity
- irrigation water economic value
- measured aquifer recharge
- mitigation of climate impact
- soil water modeling
- suitability for crop production
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