Weed community responses in a corn-soybean intercrop

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 281-288

  Gomez, Proserpina ^a,b   Gurevitch, Jessica ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Community diversity; Corn; Intercropping; Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling; Soybean; Weed ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004589925     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1478958     Document Type: Article

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