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Management of soil water to optimize biomass production is the primary aim of amelioration activities. Soil-water management, i.e. the design and operation of irrigation and drainage systems in the field have to be based on diagnoses of soil-water regimen . The soil-water regimen is a statistical characteristic of individual (mostly annual) cyclic courses of soil water (or soil-water matric potential) ; it is the generalisation of the individual annual courses by processing long-time (many years) average values of regimen characteristics. Then, the type of soil-water regimen and ways to manage it can be proposed and an expected yield can be calculated. Based on analysis of soil-water balance equations , one can propose the principles of soil-water management. Hydrological classification of the soil-water regimen and the principles of soil-water regimen diagnostics are presented.
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Novák, V., Hlaváčiková, H. (2019). Water and Energy Balance in the Field and Soil-Water Regimen. In: Applied Soil Hydrology. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01806-1_15
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