Organic fields sustain weed metacommunity dynamics in farmland landscapes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1808, 2015, Pages

  Henckel, Laura ^a   Börger, Luca ^a,b   Meiss, Helmut ^a,c,d   Gaba, Sabrina ^c   Bretagnolle, Vincent ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIV BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Agroecology; Landscape heterogeneity; Organic farming; Spatial scale; Weeds

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGROECOLOGY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; ORGANIC FARMING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WEED; WHEAT;

FRANCE;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FRANCE; ORGANIC FARMING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; WEED; WHEAT;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FRANCE; ORGANIC AGRICULTURE; PLANT WEEDS; SEASONS; TRITICUM;

EID: 84930009638     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0002     Document Type: Article

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