Burial rates of surrogate seeds in arable fields

Weed Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 142-152

  Westerman, Paula R ^a,c   Dixon, P M ^b   Liebman, M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Duration of exposure; Incorporation; Rain splash; Seed burial rate; Seed loss; Seed mimics; Seed predation risk; Seed size; Seedbank; Soil surface

Indexed keywords

FORAGE; LITTER; PREDATION; PROBABILITY; SEED BANK; SEED BURIAL; SEED SIZE; SOIL SURFACE;

GLYCINE MAX; MEDICAGO SATIVA; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 62349106827     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2008.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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