Weed suppression enhanced by increasing functional trait dispersion and resource capture in forage ley mixtures

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 240, Issue , 2017, Pages 329-339

  Suter, Matthias ^a   Hofer, Daniel ^a   Lüscher, Andreas ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomass yield; Drought experiment; Forage ley mixtures; Phytometer survival; Plant functional traits; Weed establishment

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; DRY MATTER; FORAGE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GRASSLAND; MONOCULTURE; NITROGEN; PLANT; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; WEED;

CICHORIUM INTYBUS; LOLIUM PERENNE; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 85014505524     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2017.01.007     Document Type: Article

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