A flexible sigmoidal model relating crop yield to weed relative leaf cover and its comparison with nested models

Weed Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 329-343

  Ngouajio, M ^b   Leroux, G D ^b   Lemieux, Claudel ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Maize; Model discrimination; Relative leaf cover; Semi empirical models; Threshold; Yield description

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; WEED; YIELD;

EID: 0032850249     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3180.1999.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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