Focus on ecological weed management: What is hindering adoption?

Weed Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 481-491

  Bastiaans, L ^a   Paolini, R ^b   Baumann, D T ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competition; Cultural control; Curative control; Integrated crop management; Modelling; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTROL; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 56549105491     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2008.00662.x     Document Type: Review

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