Water management
All aspects of: ground and surface water resources and their management with relevance to agriculture (including ground water recharge); water conservation and harvesting (including methods for avoiding and managing the effects of drought); hydrology and engineering (including models and hydrological data for ground and surface waters, catchment hydrology, engineering aspects of dams, canals, pipes etc. when not urban in context); water chemistry (including hydrochemistry papers, chemical speciation, chemical forms/properties, and chemical reactions in aquatic systems, with particular reference to chemicals of agricultural significance); politics, legislation and socioeconomics on rural water use ).
Irrigation
All aspects of: the role of irrigation in agriculture and horticulture, benefits of irrigation (including papers on fertigation or the use of irrigation to supply soil amendments or pesticides etc.); irrigation projects and surveys; irrigation scheduling; irrigation systems and equipment (including irrigation networks);irrigation water (including water quality and water re-use issues, water availability; politics, legislation, socioeconomics (including economic factors affecting irrigation implementation, irrigation system management and control, equipment and costs).
Irrigation of crop plants
Covers crop production under irrigation and details of the irrigation methods used with a particular crop or the improvements to yield due to irrigation, under the following headings:
Horticultural crops
Grasslands
Field crops
Fodder and forage crops
Forest trees
Drainage
Covers all papers discussing drainage issues except for urban environments and non-local impacts.
Soil water
Covers: soil water content, methods fro determining water availability, soil water physics and chemistry; soil water movement (including movement into – infiltration- and within the soil environment, saturated and unsaturated zones); soil water balance (including runoff).
Plant water relations
Covers drought stress or waterlogging on yield, crop development, and plant nutrition, under the following headings:
Horticultural crops
Grasslands
Field crops
Fodder and forage crops
Forest trees
Salinity
Covers: the use of saline water in agriculture (including methods to alleviate or avoid salinity problems); soil conditions (including saline soils and their agricultural use, the effects of salinity/salinization on the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of a soil, control of soil salinity through amendments, drainage etc.); plant response (including the effects of saline water, salinity, and salinization on crop yield and crop physiology).
Meteorological aspects
Covers: precipitation distribution, frequency, prediction, models etc (including weather conditions, climatic change, El Nino factors that effect existing and future agricultural activities in terms of water availability and use); evaporation and evapotranspiration.
Environmental aspects
Covers: methods of detecting agriculturally relevant chemicals in surface, ground or soil water. Subject areas also include:
Ground water degradation – pollution of groundwater by agriculturally relevant chemicals, influx of sea water and saline water into groundwater sources as a result of agricultural activities
Surface water degradation – pollution of rivers and reservoirs by agriculturally relevant chemicals and particles as a result of runoff, and erosion from agricultural land, monitoring of water quality in terms of agriculturally and horticulturally relevant chemicals
Chemical transport to water – transport/movement of agriculturally relevant solutes and particles towards ground and surface waters from land other than that under urban/industrial use, models of movement/transport activities
Environmental impacts of irrigation and drainage activities – non-target effects of irrigating crops, draining fields, equipment, usuage etc., to include direct effects such as pollution and indirect effects such as resultant water shortages
Engineering/environmental impacts – of building dams and canals, diversion of rivers, effect on ground water availability of drilling and well building/expansion when used for agricultural water provision, impact assessment methodology, case studies of water resources, water management systems etc
politics, economics and socioeconomics of the above
Other topics
Covers: human and animal health aspects of irrigation water (including risks and diseases from irrigation water);. crop protection aspects (including pesticide use in conjunction with irrigation and drainage systems and the control of pests in artificial water systems – pipes, channels); occurance and control of aquatic weeds in natural water systems – lakes, rivers etc.) © 2006 CAB International
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