Field weed population dynamics: A review of model approaches and applications

Weed Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-14

  Holst, N ^a   Rasmussen, I A ^a   Bastiaans, L ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Density dependence; Documentation; Economy; Herbicide resistance; Management; Sensitivity; Simulation; Spatial; Stochastic; Validation; Weed biology; Weed control

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIFE CYCLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEED; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 33846299945     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2007.00534.x     Document Type: Review

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