Irrigation and Drainage Abstracts is a fully searchable abstracts database of internationally published research. It provides access to the latest research on Irrigation and Drainage, from water resource management through soil water, irrigation of crops, and plant water relations to environmental aspects.

Selected from CAB Abstracts, the original applied life science database, coverage includes water conservation and harvesting, hydrology and hydraulic engineering, water chemistry and chemical transport of solutes and particles to freshwaters from agricultural land.

Each week Irrigation and Drainage Abstracts Online delivers all the new highly-targeted, searchable summaries covering key English and non-English language journal articles, reports, conferences and books about topics in irrigation and drainage.

The database includes a fully searchable backfile to 1983. With over 231,000 research summaries and over 18,000 records are each year, Irrigation and Drainage Abstracts brings you a wealth of current and seminal research into all relevant aspects of irrigation and drainage to your fingertips!

Irrigation and Drainage is updated weekly online, it is also available in print, delivered bimonthly.

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• • – drainage systems and environmental impacts of drainage
• • – environmental aspects – water pollution and engineering impacts
  • • • – human and animal health, crop protection aspects and aquatic weeds

      – irrigation of crop plants

    – irrigation scheduling, systems and equipment

  • – irrigation water
  • • – meteorological aspects, evaporation and evapotranspiration

    – plant water relations

  • • – politics, legislation and socioeconomics of all aspects of irrigation and drainage Irrigation of crop plants

    – salinity its effects on soil properties and on crops, and its control

  – soil water content, movement and balance

• – water management on all scales for rainfed and irrigated agriculture

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