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Provedor de dados: 	53	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Coffee crop coefficient for precision irrigation based on leaf area index	
Autores: 	Pereira,Antonio Roberto; Camargo,Marcelo Bento Paes de; Villa Nova,Nilson Augusto.	
Data: 	2011-01-01	
Ano: 	2011	
Palavras-chave: 	Coffea arábica L.; Reference evapotranspiration; Soil water balance; Planting density.	
Resumo: 	Crop coefficient (Kc) for coffee plantations was found to be linearly related to the leaf area index (L) up to 3, i.e., Kc = b L. The basic assumption is that for irrigated trees the water use per unit leaf area (ET LA) is equal to the reference evapotranspiration (ETo) expressed also on a unit leaf area basis of the reference surface (ET LA = ETo/Lo). As recommended by FAO-56 the leaf area index (Lo) for the hypothetical reference surface (grass) is equal to 2.88, then the most likely value is b = Lo-1 = 2.88-1 = 0.347. However, for L &amp;gt; 3 (completely covered ground surface) Kc decreased from a peak value (~1.05) tending to an asymptotic low value around 0.7 for L &amp;gt; 6, but the linear model gives unrealistic Kc estimates; tentatively the empirical function Kc = 1.8 L-0.5 is offered here as an initial guess due to the lack of experimental results for the interval 3.5 &lt;L &lt; 5.5. To become operational under commercial fields it is necessary to estimate the leaf area per coffee tree (LA, m² tree-1), and based on a very limited set of data, LA was estimated as a function of planting density (PD, trees ha-1), i.e., LA = 88.38 - 8.63 Ln (PD). Alternatively, L (&lt; 3.4) can be computed directly as a function of canopy volume (for V &lt; 1.2 m³).	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87052011000400030	
Editor: 	Instituto Agronômico de Campinas	
Relação: 	10.1590/S0006-87052011000400030	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Bragantia  v.70 n.4 2011	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess