Editorial Board for section 'Water Use and Irrigation'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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College of Water Recourses and Architectural Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Interests: drip irrigation; evapotranspiration; water balance; crop–water relations; water resources management; soil fertility
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Sustainable Water Management Research Unit, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Ft Collins, CO 80526, USA
Interests: agriculture; limited irrigation water management; plant physiology; sustainable agriculture; water resources management; climate change; agricultural system modeling; climate change impacts in agriculture; eddy covariance flux monitoring
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CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Interests: crop agronomy; irrigation and water use efficiency; digital agriculture

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Department of Biosystems Engineering, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: irrigation requirements; irrigation management; on-farm irrigation systems; irrigation districts; environmental impacts of irrigation
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Dipartimento di Scienze Agro Ambientali e Territoriali DISSAT, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70121 Bari, Italy
Interests: fruit quality; horticulture; irrigation; phenolic compounds; plant physiology; agriculture; soil; wastewater; antioxidant activity; polyphenols
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Departamento de Solos e Engenharia Rural, Faculdade de Agronomia, Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Interests: soil carbon; ecology; soil; eddy covariance; soil respiration; plant nutrition; biogeochemistry; environmental impact assessment; ecosystems; carbon dioxide; climate change; carbon cycle; rhizosphere; soil science; remote sensing; soil physics; groundwater; ecosystem modeling; geochemistry; pedology; dissolved organic matter; soil organic matter; hydrology; vegetation; environment; soil analysis

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School of Agricultural and Wine sciences Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Interests: measuring and managing of evapotranspiration by agricultural systems; manipulation of systems water balance through the retention and management of crop residues and the implications for biomass production and crop yield; influence of evaporative flux on the microclimate of agricultural crops; factors by which high temperatures impacts can be avoid in irrigated rice systems; long term climatic changes in south eastern Australia; managing agricultural cropping systems to improve water use and reduce deep percolation losses

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Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Science, University of Arizona, 1133 E. James E. Rogers Way, JW Harshbarger Building, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Interests: vadose zone hydrology; measurement network optimization; model-based decision support; hydrology and water resources

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Department of Agroforestry Science, University of Seville, Ctra. Utrera Km 1, 41013 Seville, Spain
Interests: irrigation management; deficit irrigation; climate change; plant ecophysiology; water stress; water relations; water footprint; water use efficiency; water productivity; water saving; droughts and water scarcity; plant nutrition; evapotranspiration and plant modelling
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Agricultural Engineering Department, Technical University of Cartagena, Paseo Alfonso XIII, 48, 30203 Cartagena, Spain
Interests: irrigation sustainability; water desalination for agriculture; life cycle assessment in agriculture; remote sensing of vegetation; models and decision-support systems
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Andalusian Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA), Granada, Spain
Interests: water stress; crop physiology; deficit-irrigation strategies; crop-water monitoring; soil conservation; conservation agriculture
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Institute of BioEconomy, National Research Council (CNR-IBE) Via P. Gaifami 18, 95126 Catania, Italy
Interests: irrigation; sustainability; water resources management; agriculture; crop management; sustainable agriculture; crop production; organic farming
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Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, and Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: integrations of advanced modeling techniques; in-situ/proximal/remote sensing; advanced climate information for decision supports for agriculture and water management; agricultural models; agricultural production system

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Wind Erosion and Water Conservation Research Unit, USDA–ARS, Lubbock, TX 79415, USA
Interests: hydrology; agriculture; soil fertility; water resources management; plant physiology; soil; soil and water conservation; environmental science; sustainable agriculture; environment
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Center for Agricultural Water Research in China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: agricultural water saving; drip irrigation; evapotranspiration
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Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences – DISTAL - Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin, 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: application of new technologies and precision management techniques; effects of the environment on fruit tree physiology; developing new management strategies to improve orchards’ sustainability, maintaining a high level of quality and yields
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Department of Agri-Food Sciences and Technologies, University of Bologna | UNIBO, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: irrigation; source-sink relationship; fruit growth; fruit tree ecophysiology; water relation; fruit quality
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Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari, Ambientali e Forestali (DAGRI), University of Florence, Firenze FI, Italy
Interests: plants; plant biology; plant physiology; plant environmental; stress physiology; plant ecology; biomechanics; physiology horticulture; botany; ecology
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Research Center on Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF), School of Agriculture (ISA), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: crop and reference evapotranspiration; crop water requirements; irrigation management; modelling; water–yield relations; coping with water scarcity
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto per la BioEconomia (IBE), 95126 Catania, Italy
Interests: seed germination; abiotic stresses; deficit irrigation; agronomy; crop management; energy biomass crops
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Departament of Economics and Economic History, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
Interests: hydroeconomics; economic calibrated models; mathematical programming; system analysis; water scarcity; droughts

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Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
Interests: plant molecular genetics; plant molecular bleeding; waterlogging and flooding tolerance; drought tolerance

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Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources (IBBR), National Research Council of Italy-CNR, 80055 Portici, Naples, Italy
Interests: soil salinity; saline water; crop production; abiotic stress; irrigation management; water use efficiency; sustainable agriculture; horticultural and fiber crops
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CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Private Bag 5, PO Wembley, WA 6913, Australia
Interests: crop and pasture water use; dryland water use efficiency; mixed farming systems; nutrient cycling; sustainable production
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