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Concerns over environmental and human health impacts of conventional weed management practices, herbicide resistance in weeds, and rising costs of crop production and protection have led agricultural producers and scientists in many countries to seek strategies that take greater advantage of ecological processes and thereby allow a reduction in herbicide use. This book provides principles and practices for ecologically based weed management in a wide range of temperate and tropical farming systems. After examining weed life histories and processes determining the assembly of weed communities, the authors describe how tillage and cultivation practices, manipulations of soil conditions, competitive cultivars, crop diversification, grazing livestock, arthropod and microbial biocontrol agents, and other factors can be used to reduce weed germination, growth, competitive ability, reproduction and dispersal. Special attention is given to the evolutionary challenges that weeds pose and the roles that farmers can play in the development of new weed-management strategies.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Botany & plant sciences

• Full title: Ecological Management of Agricultural Weeds
• Author: Matt LiebmanCharles L. MohlerCharles P. Staver
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 546
• EAN: 9780521560689
• ISBN: 0521560683
• ID: 02035223
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 1192 g
• Dimensions: 251 × 180 × 38 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. July 2001

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