The effects of seed mix and management on the abundance of desirable and pernicious unsown species in arable buffer strip communities

Weed Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-123

  Westbury, D B ^a   Woodcock, B A ^a   Harris, S J ^a   Brown, V K ^a   Potts, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arable; Biodiversity; Graminicide; Harrowing; Scarification; Weeds

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARABLE LAND; BUFFER ZONE; CROP PLANT; GRASS; HERB; HERBICIDE; REFUGE; SCARIFICATION; WEED CONTROL;

AVES; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM VULGARE; ELYMUS REPENS; GALIUM; GALIUM APARINE; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; POA; POA ANNUA; SONCHUS;

EID: 40749110133     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2007.00614.x     Document Type: Article

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