Tillage system did not affect weed diversity in a 23-year experiment in Mediterranean dryland

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 102-105

  Plaza, E Hernandez ^a   Kozak, M ^b   Navarrete, L ^c   Gonzalez Andujar, J L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c Dept Agroalimentación   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Crop rotation; Diversity indices; Long term experiment; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CEREAL; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP ROTATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEGUME; LINEARITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WEED;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 79151469107     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.11.016     Document Type: Article

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