ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL WEEDS,LIEBMAN,Cambridge University Press,9780521037877,

ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL WEEDS,LIEBMAN,Cambridge University Press,9780521037877,

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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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ISBN 9780521037877
PUBLISHER Cambridge University Press
Binding PAPERBACK
Edition 2007
Language English

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