Special Issue "Water Management in Woody Crops: Challenges and Opportunities"
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: irrigation; crop modeling; sustainable agriculture; plant ecophysiology; soil management and quality; viticulture; fruit trees; crop water requirements; biodiversity; ecology
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Interests: remote sensing; evapotranspiration; precision agriculture; modeling; surface energy balance; soil water balance; geographic information systems; irrigation management; crop water stress; crop coefficient
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water conservation is paramount for the long-term sustainability of agroecosystems, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. In the case of woody crops, it is a serious concern due to the large extension of these crops in different climatic conditions and the high inputs required for growing them. Indeed, the optimization of water management is critical for agricultural sustainability, especially under actual climate change scenarios (higher air temperatures, more severe drought and heat waves), since crop yield, quality, and economic viability largely depend on water availability.
This Special Issue aims at collecting original and quantitative research on water management in woody crops (i.e., fruit orchards, olive groves, vineyards, citrus, berries, forest stands, shrubs, etc.) including:
- Research on irrigation management strategies aiming to save water while maintaining yield and crop quality; especially when employing alternative water sources (as saline or reclaimed water);
- Studies of other cultural practices that allow for saving water in orchards (mulching, cover crops, canopy management, cultivar and rootstock selection, etc.);
- Studies focused on the effects of climate change on water availability for woody crops, either in the field or under controlled conditions;
- Works using novel techniques for estimating crop water requirements at different application scales (plant, orchard, watershed), through remote sensing technologies, especially those covering the optical, infrared, and radar regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Therefore, the proposed topic can be considered from many viewpoints and we encourage authors working on crop modeling and upscaling to submit their manuscripts for consideration.
Dr. José Manuel Mirás-Avalos
Dr. Juan Miguel Ramírez-Cuesta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- alternative water sources
- climate change
- crop modeling
- crop water requirements
- cultural practices
- deficit irrigation strategies
- evapotranspiration
- irrigation management
- precision agriculture
- remote sensing
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Optimization of vineyard water management: strategies, challenges and perspectives
Authors: José Manuel Mirás-Avalos 1; Emily Silva Araujo 2
Affiliation: 1 Unidad de Suelos y Riegos (asociada a EEAD-CSIC), Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA), Av. Montañana, 930, Zaragoza 50059, Spain;
2 Laboratory of Entomology Professor Ângelo Moreira da Costa Lima, Department of Basic Pathology, Federal University of Paraná, Av. Cel. Francisco H. dos Santos, s/n, Curitiba 81531-980, Paraná, Brazil;
Abstract: Water is a critical resource for viticulture. The availability of this scarce resource is endangering the production, quality and economic viability of growing wine grapes worldwide. Climate change projections reveal warming and drying trends for the upcoming decades, constraining the sustainability of viticulture. In this context, a great research effort over the last years has been devoted to understand the effects of water stress on grapevine performance. Moreover, irrigation scheduling and other management practices have been tested in order to alleviate the deleterious effects of water stress on wine production. The current manuscript provides a comprehensive review of the advances in the research on optimizing water management in vineyards. In addition, methods for assessing vine water status will be summarised. Moreover, the manuscript will focus on the interactions between grapevine water status and other stressors, either abiotic or biotic. We will also provide an overview of novel techniques, including modelling and remote sensing, for improving the estimations of grapevine water requirements. Finally, future perspectives will be provided.
Title: Effects of drip irrigation agronomic design on young lemon (evergreen) and persimmon (deciduous) orchards in semi-arid orchards
Authors: Diego Intrigliolo
Affiliation: CEBAS-CSIC