Ornamental plants use unique adaptive mechanisms to overcome the negative effects of
drought stress. A large number of species grown in the Mediterranean area offer the …

In the United States, urban population growth, improved living standards, limited
development of new water supplies, and dwindling current water supplies are causing the …

Abstract This Manual of Practice (MOP) is a comprehensive reference to estimating the
water quantities needed for irrigation of crops based upon the physics of evaporation and …

Residential landscapes are a common setting of human-environment interactions. These
ubiquitous ecosystems provide social and ecological services, and yard maintenance leads …

Instrumented weather stations are often used for evapotranspiration (ET) determination in
order to estimate crop water use for irrigation scheduling. A direct estimate of crop water use …

In landscaping and xerogardening projects, under semi-arid conditions, appropriate plant
selection and conditioning techniques used in the nursery during seedling production are …

The need for salt-tolerant turfgrasses is ever-increasing. Rapid urban population growth has
put enormous pressures on limited freshwater supplies. Many state and local governments …

Water shortages and poor water quality are critical issues in many areas of the world. With
rapid increases in population and shortage of water supplies in urban areas, use of …

Irrigated agriculture produces about 40% of all food and fibre on about 16% of all cropped
land. As such, irrigated agriculture is a productive user of resources; both in terms of yield …

Salinity affects about one third of irrigated land, causing a significant reduction in crop
productivity (Flowers & Yeo, 1995; Ravindran et al., 2007). For this reason researchers have …