Level of threshold weed density does not affect the long-term frequency of weed control

Crop Protection

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 273-278

  Wallinga, J ^a   Van Oijen, M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

population dynamics; theshold densities; weeds

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THRESHOLD; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 0030614103     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-2194(96)00091-9     Document Type: Article

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