Sustainable Irrigation Management in Horticulture
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 233
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agrometeorology is a relatively new discipline, having its origins in the early years of the twentieth century and its own textbooks by the middle of the century. One of the first applications of agrometeorology was the measurement of evaporation from vegetated surfaces. This was of interest not only for determining that portion of the hydrological cycle, but also, more practically, to promote rational irrigation planning. The current aim of the field is to study the biological responses of plants to local atmospheric conditions in both natural and protected environments, and to monitor the regime of meteorological elements such as soil and air temperature, humidity in the air, solar radiation, atmospheric pressure, duration of bright sunshine hours, photoperiod, wind direction and speed, precipitation, evaporation and evapotranspiration, solar radiation and energy balance, and leaf wetness duration under several situations of soil and crop management at a given specific site. Agrometeorology comprises issues linked to soil–plant–atmosphere relationships, aiming at the determination of the frequency and amount of irrigation water to be applied and its impacts on crop yield; solar radiometry; vegetal and animal biometeorology; seasonal weather forecasts for protecting plants against diseases, pests, and weeds; defense against climatic adversities; crop weather modeling (yield gaps); cropping systems either in greenhouses or commercial production fields; micrometeorological studies; agroclimatic zoning; soil water status and plant nutrition interactions; as well as fruit science and horticulture versus the agricultural environment.
Dr. André Belmont Pereira
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climatic elements
- irrigation planning
- modelling
- cropping systems
- solar radiometry
- sustainable agriculture
- weather conditions
- yield gaps
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