Unravelling soil water dynamics in almond orchards characterized by soil-heterogeneity using electrical resistivity tomography

Characterizing soil heterogeneity helps to improve the management of the natural resources (mainly water, nutrients and soil itself) at the farm level and enhances crop growth and relative yield sustainability. In this context, the geophysical monitoring based on direct current methods (such as the...

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Main Authors: Kisekka, I. (Author), Peddinti, S.R (Author), Vanella, D. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2022
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245 1 0 |a Unravelling soil water dynamics in almond orchards characterized by soil-heterogeneity using electrical resistivity tomography 
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520 3 |a Characterizing soil heterogeneity helps to improve the management of the natural resources (mainly water, nutrients and soil itself) at the farm level and enhances crop growth and relative yield sustainability. In this context, the geophysical monitoring based on direct current methods (such as the Electrical Resistivity Tomography, ERT) can help to detect the soil heterogeneity by exploring the soil water variability. ERT time-lapse surveys were carried out in almond orchards characterized by different soil types in terms of structure (i.e. layered, light and heavy soil profiles) and texture features (i.e. prevalently clay loam versus sandy clay loam). Specifically, two-dimensional ERT surveys were combined with the monitoring of multiple soil-plant-atmosphere factors, including the components of the surface energy balance using an eddy covariance system, the soil moisture and the plant water status measured using a neutron probe and pressure chamber measurements, respectively. The interpretation of the ERT results together with the ancillary data has provided spatially and temporally distributed information about the soil water processes that occurred within the almond root-zone during irrigation, allowing us to identify where the most root-water uptake occurs and the delineation of the irrigation wet bulbs under micro-irrigations conditions. © 2022 The Authors 
650 0 4 |a Almond 
650 0 4 |a Almonds 
650 0 4 |a Crop growth 
650 0 4 |a crop plant 
650 0 4 |a Electric conductivity 
650 0 4 |a electrical resistivity 
650 0 4 |a Electrical resistivity tomography 
650 0 4 |a heterogeneity 
650 0 4 |a Irrigation 
650 0 4 |a neutron probe 
650 0 4 |a orchard 
650 0 4 |a Orchards 
650 0 4 |a precision agriculture 
650 0 4 |a Precision irrigation 
650 0 4 |a Precision irrigation 
650 0 4 |a sandy clay loam 
650 0 4 |a Soil heterogeneity 
650 0 4 |a soil moisture 
650 0 4 |a Soil moisture 
650 0 4 |a soil water 
650 0 4 |a Soil water 
650 0 4 |a Soil water dynamics 
650 0 4 |a Soil-water variability 
650 0 4 |a Soil-water variability 
650 0 4 |a Surveys 
650 0 4 |a Textures 
650 0 4 |a water management 
650 0 4 |a Water management 
650 0 4 |a Water management 
650 0 4 |a Water nutrient 
650 0 4 |a Waters managements 
700 1 |a Kisekka, I.  |e author 
700 1 |a Peddinti, S.R.  |e author 
700 1 |a Vanella, D.  |e author 
773 |t Agricultural Water Management