Variability of water balance components in a coffee crop in Brazil

Establishing field water balances is difficult and costly, the variability of their components being the major problem to obtain reliable results. This component variability is presented herein for a coffee crop grown in the Southern Hemisphere, on a tropical soil with 10% slope. It was observed that: rainfall has to be measured with an appropriate number of replicates; irrigation can introduce great variability into calculations; evapotranspiration, calculated as a remainder of the water balance equation, has exceedingly high coefficients of variation; the soil water storage component is the major contributor in error propagation calculations to estimate evapotranspiration; and that runoff can be satisfactorily controlled on the 10% slope through crop management practices.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Silva,Adriana Lúcia da, Roveratti,Renato, Reichardt,Klaus, Bacchi,Osny Oliveira Santos, Timm,Luis Carlos, Bruno,Isabeli Pereira, Oliveira,Julio César Martins, Dourado Neto,Durval
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" 2006
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162006000200001
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