Weighing abiotic and biotic influences on weed seed predation

Weed Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 402-412

  Davis, A S ^a   Raghu, S ^b,c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c Arid Zone Research Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abutilon theophrasti; Ambrosia trifida; Araneae; Carabidae; Ecological weed management; Granivory; Gryllus pennsylvanicus; Seedbank dynamics; Setaria faberi; Weather

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DICOTYLEDON; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GRANIVORY; INSECT; MAIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEED BANK; SEED PREDATION; SEED RAIN; TROPHIC INTERACTION; VERTEBRATE; WEED CONTROL;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

ABUTILON THEOPHRASTI; AMBROSIA; AMBROSIA TRIFIDA; ARANEAE; CARABIDAE; GRYLLUS PENNSYLVANICUS; INVERTEBRATA; SETARIA (PLANT); SETARIA FABERI; VERTEBRATA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77956275018     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2010.00790.x     Document Type: Article

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