Effects of local landscape richness on in-field weed metrics across the Great Britain scale

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 158, Issue , 2012, Pages 208-215

  Bohan, D A ^a,b   Haughton, A J ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIV BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Bee abundance; Farm management intensity; Landscape richness; Weed abundance; Weed species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; ARABLE LAND; BEE; DATA SET; FIELDWORK; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SPECIES RICHNESS; WEED; WEED CONTROL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

APOIDEA;

EID: 84863868854     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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