Arable weed decline in Northern France: Crop edges as refugia for weed conservation?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 238-243

  Fried, Guillaume ^a,b   Petit, Sandrine ^b   Dessaint, Fabrice ^b   Reboud, Xavier ^b  

^a MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Agroecology; Archeophyt weeds; Biodiversity; Conservation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGROECOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; REFUGIUM; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREND ANALYSIS; WEED;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 57149133660     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.09.029     Document Type: Article

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