Diversity and assembly of weed communities: Contrasting responses across cropping systems

Weed Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 303-315

  Legere A ^a   Stevenson, F C ^b   Benoit, D L ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b Agriculture and Agri Food Canada ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Crop rotation; No till; Species evenness; Species richness; Weed diversity; Weed seedbank

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CROP ROTATION; CROPPING PRACTICE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TILLAGE; WEED;

HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE;

EID: 27644451761     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2005.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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