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Water scarcity, soil salinization, and desertification threaten sustainable agricultural ecosystems of Hetao irrigation district, Yellow River Basin (YRB). Precise quantification of soil water dynamics and plant water consumption processes is essenti...

Irrigated areas are major vectors of agricultural development and components of ecosystems. The groundwater level maintains the irrigated areas’ ecology safety and sustainable development. Under the influence of irrational irrigation practices&...

As a widely implemented irrigation regime for paddy fields, water-saving irrigation (WSI) is capable of ensuring water resource security and improving nitrogen use efficiency (NUE). Higher gaseous nitrogen losses (GNL) lead to a low recovery rate of...

Quantifying components of soil water balance in farmland of the middle reaches of Heihe River Basin is essential for efficiently scheduling and allocating limited water resources for irrigation in this arid region. A soil water balance model based on...

Drip irrigation (DI) has been widely utilized for crops and its water-saving effect has been confirmed by numerous studies. However, whether this technology can save so much water under the field scale during practical application is still uncertain....

The efficient use of limited water resources and improving the water use efficiency (WUE) of arid agricultural systems is becoming one of the greatest challenges in agriculture production and global food security because of the shortage of water reso...

Nudging the adoption of agricultural green production technologies (AGPTs) by cotton farmers is a practical need to implement the national “green development” strategy. Based on the micro-survey data of 502 cotton farmers, this paper empi...

The optimization of plant density plays a crucial role in cotton production, and deficit irrigation, as a water-saving measure, has been widely adopted in arid regions. However, regulatory mechanisms governing nitrogen absorption, transportation, and...

Ongoing investments in irrigation technologies highlight the need to accurately estimate the longevity and magnitude of water savings at the watershed level to avoid the paradox of irrigation efficiency. This paradox arises when irrigation pumping ex...

Currently, reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great potential in energy saving in HVAC systems. However, in most cases, RL takes a relatively long period to explore the environment before obtaining an excellent control policy, which may lead to an...

Crop models are crucial in assessing the reliability and sustainability of soil water conservation practices. The AquaCrop model was tested and validated for maize productivity under the selected climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices in the rainf...

Sustainable fruit orchard development in arid areas is severely affected by the scarcity of fresh water. To mitigate the lack of fresh water, the use of low-quality water for irrigation is becoming a common practice in several margin areas. However,...

Ships’ ballast water can carry aquatic organisms into foreign ecosystems. In our previous studies, a concept using ion exchange membrane electrolysis to treat ballast water has been proven. In addition to other substantial approaches, a new strategy...

The protection of water resources is of paramount importance to human beings’ practical lives. Monitoring and improving water quality nowadays has become an important topic. In this study, a novel Bayesian probabilistic neural network (BPNN) im...

Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are a category of persistent, non-degradable pollutants that are widespread in the environment and in humans. They have attracted considerable attention due to their high bioaccumulat...

Assessing the impact of planting methods and irrigation levels is needed to determine the effects on maize root morphological traits, grain yield, and water productivity in semi-arid regions. A study was initiated on maize (Zea mays L.) from 2015 to...

Over the years, air lubrication technology has been widely applied to maritime vessels, demonstrating its significant energy-saving and emission-reducing effects. However, the application of this technology in inland waterway transportation faces uni...

With the booming of renewable clean energies towards reducing carbon emission, demands for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in applications to transportation vehicles and power stations are increasing exponentially. As a consequence, great pressures have...

The circular economy (CE) is a promising model in industrial waste management, offering viable long-term resource sustainability. The rising costs of the oil and gas industry make circularity a reliable approach for saving materials, money, and energ...

Energy consumption analysis has often faced challenges such as limited model accuracy and inadequate consideration of the complex interactions between energy usage and meteorological data. This study is presented as a solution to these challenges thr...