Impact of crop management on weed species diversity and community composition of winter wheat fields in Iran

Weed Biology and Management

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 83-90

  Rassam, Ghorbanali ^a   Latifi, Nasser ^a   Soltani, Afshin ^a   Kamkar, Behnam ^a  

^a GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Farming system; Herbicide; Species richness; Weed diversity

Indexed keywords

POACEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79959328612     PISSN: 14446162     EISSN: 14456664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-6664.2011.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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