HEИндивидуална стипендия2023–2025

REWATERING · REalistic WATER budgetING in protected agriculture

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-05-01 → 2025-04-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 188 590 €
Участници: 1
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Водният баланс в райони с парникови стопански култури се анализира чрез нови модели за количествено и качествено проследяване на водата. Това помага за намаляване на риска от наводнения и по-добро управление на ресурсите при нарастването на защитеното земеделие.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

REalistic WATER budgetING in protected agriculture

Protected agriculture makes use of technology to create an optimal environment for crops growth. The project “REalistic WATER budgetING in protected agriculture (REWATERING)” proposes a novel open-access framework to monitor and model water quantity and quality in agricultural catchments covered also by soil-bound leafy crops grown under plastic greenhouses. The locations of plastic greenhouses and their spatial and temporal evolution is not currently known. The study area has evolved from an open field agricultural catchment in the 1980s to a greenhouse district in 2024. This has caused an increase in imperviousness, and a consequent increase in the flood risk for the rainfall does not infiltrate in the soil. Yet, farmers have increased food production thanks to the development of greenhouse technology despite the management is still mostly driven by experience. Therefore, the specific objectives of REWATERING have been to: (1) Deliver a methodology for catchment-scale models to explicitly account for the role of protected agriculture on water quantity and quality, (2) Measure water quality in the study area with 14 days-average samples for one year, (3) Share knowledge among stakeholders interested in protected agriculture. REWATERING is an essential project because protected agriculture is a growing reality in Europe and worldwide for it allows for boosting the production of healthy vegetables and fruits, while saving water resources, especially in semi-arid climates. The novel framework proposed in this research expands catchment-scale hydrological science making possible to predict short- and long-term water quantity and quality management in the presence of protected agriculture.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Protected agriculture makes use of technology to create an optimal environment for crops growth. In particular, protected agriculture makes use of covers to shield crops from adverse meteorological events including storms, droughts, temperature extremes and strong winds. However, these controls inherently disrupt the water budget terms currently accounted for in hydrological modelling (runoff, evapotranspiration, soil moisture storage, infiltration, etc…). For the first time, the project REalistic WATER budgetING in protected agriculture (REWATERING) will deliver and validate a methodology for catchment-scale models (i.e., CATHY) to explicitly account for the role of protected agriculture on water quantity and quality. REWATERING will also unprecedently monitor water quality in a stream draining a small catchment mainly used for protected agriculture by means of high-resolution mass spectrometry. I will carry out REWATERING in a globally recognised research group for hydrological modelling. Overall, the host university will be the perfect interdisciplinary hub to accomplish the proposed research because it will provide internal collaborations with excellent academics in hydrology, agriculture and environmental chemistry. Protected agriculture is a growing reality worldwide, currently covering 15% of the agricultural lands, and often occupying entire hydrological catchments. The socially relevant and scientifically innovative interdisciplinary activities proposed in this research are urged to expand catchment-scale hydrological models to predict short- and long-term water quantity and quality resulting from water management characteristic of protected agriculture.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · PadovaКоординаторИталия