The β-diversity of arable weed communities on organic and conventional cereal farms in two contrasting regions

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 571-579

  Armengot, Laura ^a   Sans, Francesc Xavier ^a   Fischer, Christina ^b   Flohre, Andreas ^b   José María, Laura ^a   Tscharntke, Teja ^b   Thies, Carsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additive diversity partitioning; Agricultural intensification; Broad leaves; Community dissimilarity; Grasses; Legumes; Organic vs conventional farming

Indexed keywords

POACEAE;

EID: 84865969607     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2012.01190.x     Document Type: Article

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