Water Management Within the Soil-Plant System – A Challenge for the 21st Century

Birkás, Márta; Jug, Danijel; Kisić, Ivica; Kassai, Katalin M.; Tarnawa, Ákos; Jolánkai, Márton

doi:10.2478/ahr-2021-0004

Abstract

Water is the most essential substance regarding the physiological processes of any living system. Agricultural activities and global food security are highly influenced by water availability. The value of water and water resources already exceeds that of energy sources today. The water-related concepts are very diverse in agricultural relations. The aim of this paper was to revive some terms related to water and discuss their importance in soil-plant systems. In this paper, eight phrases were selected paying attention to the importance of water management, namely soil water management, soil moisture range for workability, rain stress, water logging, water shortage, irrigation, water intake and water loss, avoiding water loss and reply to climate change phenomena. Findings of water management research point to a relationship between soil quality and improvement of water intake capacity, parallel with climate stress mitigation.

References

Bartholy, J., Pongrácz, R., Matyasovszky, I., Schalenger, V. (2004). Trends of climate having taken place in the 20th century and expected in the 21st century on the territory of Hungary. “Agro-21” Füzetek, 33, 3–18.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Birkás, M., Ðekemati, I., Kende, Z., Kisić, I. (2015). Excess water phenomena – long-lasting remediation. In: Baban, M., Rasić, S. (eds.). Proceedings and abstracts. 8th International Scientific Professional Conference. Agriculture in nature and environmental protection. Osijek: Glas Slavonije (pp. 34–44).
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Birkás, M., Dekemati, I., Kende Z., Pósa, B. (2017a). Review of soil tillage history and new challenges in Hungary. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 66(1), 55–64.10.15201/hungeobull.66.1.6
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Birkás, M., Ðekemati, I., Kende, Z., Kisić, I., Pósa, B. (2017b). Results of the soil quality preservation in the extreme seasons. In: Mijić P, Ranogajeć L. (eds.) Proceedings and abstracts. 10th International Scientific/Professional Conference Agriculture in the Nature and Environment Protection. Osijek: Glas Slavonije (pp. 10–19).
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Birkás, M., Jug, D., Kende Z., Kisić, I., Szemők, A. (2018). Soil tillage response to the climate threats – Revaluation of the classic theories. Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus, 83(1), 1–9.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Birkás, M., Jug, D., Kisić, I., Ðekemati, I., Kovács, G.P. (2019). Challenge in the 21st century – water management is soils. In: Jug, D, Brozović, B. (eds.). Proceedings and abstracts. 12th International Scientific/Professional Conference Agriculture in the Nature and Environment Protection. Osijek, Croatia: Glas Slavonije (pp. 10–19).
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Bogunović, I., Kisić, I. (2017). Compaction of clay loam soil in Pannonian region of Croatia under different tillage systems. J. Agr. Science and Techn., 19(2), 475–486.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Dexter, A. R., Bird, N. R. A. (2001). Methods for predicting the optimum and the range of soil water contents for tillage based on the water retention curve. Soil and Tillage Research., 57, 203–212.10.1016/S0167-1987(00)00154-9
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Farkas, C., Birkás, M., Várallyay, G. (2009). Soil tillage systems to reduce the harmful effect of extreme weather and hydrological situations. Biologia, 64(3), 624–628.10.2478/s11756-009-0079-6
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Jolánkai, M., Nyárai, H. F., Kassai, M. K. (2013). A water stress assessment survey based on the evaportranspiration balance of major field crop species. Növénytermelés, 62(Suppl), 351–354.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Jug, D., Jug, I., Vukadinović, V., Đurđević, B., Stipešević, B., Brozović, B. (2017). Conservation soil tillage as a measure for climate change mitigation. Osijek, Croatian: Croatian Soil Tillage Research Organization.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Kisić, I., Bogunović, I., Bilandžija, D. (2017). The influence of tillage and crops on particle size distribution of water-eroded soil sediment on Stagnosol. Soil and Water Research, 12(3), 170–176.10.17221/91/2016-SWR
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Liu, X., Feike, T., Shao, L., Sun, H., Chen, S., Zhang, X. (2016). Effects of different irrigation regimes on soil compaction in a winter wheat– summer maize cropping system in the North China Plain. Catena, 137, 70–76.10.1016/j.catena.2015.08.014
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Pálfai, I. (2010). Evaluation of the hydrology aspects of groundwater floods in 2010. Clima-21 Brochures. Climate change – Impacts – Responses, (61), 43–51.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Szalai, S., Lakatos, M. (2013). Precipitation climatology of the Carpathian Region and its effects on the agriculture. Növény- termelés, 62(Suppl.), 315–318.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Várallyay, G. (2010). Increasing importance of the water storage function of soils under climate change. Agrokémia és Talajtan, 59(1), 7–18.10.1556/agrokem.59.2010.1.2
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Velpun, M. N., Senay, G. B. (2017). Partitioning evapotranspiration into green and blue water sources in the Conterminous United States. Sci. Rep. 7, 6191. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Articles/PMC5522464
Search in Google Scholar Back to article

Water Management Within the Soil-Plant System – A Challenge for the 21st Century

Abstract

Paradigm

My account