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EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND IRRIGATION REQUIREMENTS OF A COFFEE PLANTATION IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2005

FÁBIO RICARDO MARIN ,
LUIZ ROBERTO ANGELOCCI ,
EVANDRO ZANINI RIGHI  and
PAULO CÉSAR SENTELHAS
FÁBIO RICARDO MARIN
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Escola Superior de Agricultura ‘Luiz de Queiroz’, Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Pádua Dias, P.O. Box 11, 13418-900, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil Present address: Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) – National Satellite Monitoring Research Center, Av. Júlio Soares de Arruda, 803. 13088-300. Campinas, SP, Brazil. frmarin@cnptia.embrapa.br
LUIZ ROBERTO ANGELOCCI
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Escola Superior de Agricultura ‘Luiz de Queiroz’, Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Pádua Dias, P.O. Box 11, 13418-900, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
EVANDRO ZANINI RIGHI
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Escola Superior de Agricultura ‘Luiz de Queiroz’, Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Pádua Dias, P.O. Box 11, 13418-900, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
PAULO CÉSAR SENTELHAS
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Escola Superior de Agricultura ‘Luiz de Queiroz’, Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Pádua Dias, P.O. Box 11, 13418-900, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
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Crop evapotranspiration (ETc) was measured as evaporative heat flux from a drip-irrigated coffee (Coffea arabica) plantation with 5-year-old trees using the Bowen ratio-energy balance technique. Crop transpiration (T) was determined with the stem heat balance method. Irrigation requirements were determined by comparing the ETc and T with reference evapotranspiration (ETo) derived from the Penman-Monteith equation and expressed as the ETc/ETo (Kc) and T/ETo (Kcb) ratios. Also, relationships were established between ETc and T and class A pan evaporation (ECA). The influence of inter-row vegetation on ETc was analysed, since the measurements were taken in a period of transition between dry-wet seasons. The average Kc value obtained was 1.00. The strong coupling of coffee plants to atmospheric conditions and high sensitivity of coffee plants to large vapour pressure deficits and air/leaf temperatures caused variations in Kcb in relation to ETo. Kcb ranged from 0.67, when ETo exceeded 4 mm d−1, to 1.27 when ETo was less than 2 mm d−1. When vegetation did not occupy the inter-row ground spaces, T represented about 0.87ETc, but 0.68ETc when ground vegetation filled the inter-row spaces.

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Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 187 - 197
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press