Controlling annual weeds in cereals by deploying crop rotation at the landscape scale: Avena sterilis as an example

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 982-992

  González Díaz, Lucía ^a   Van Den Berg, Femke ^b   Van Den Bosch, Frank ^b   González Andújar, José Luis ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregated crop patches; Avena sterilis; Crop rotation; Population dynamics; Regional stochasticity; Seed dispersal; Southern Spain; Spatially explicit landscape model; Weed management

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CEREAL; CROP ROTATION; GRASS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEED DISPERSAL; STOCHASTICITY; WEED CONTROL;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CEREAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; WEED;

AGRICULTURE; CEREALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT WEEDS; POACEAE;

SPAIN;

AVENA STERILIS;

EID: 84860237812     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1079.1     Document Type: Article

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