Ecological management of agricultural weeds / written and edited by Matt Liebman, Charles L. Mohler, Charles P. Staver.

Call Number	632/.5
Author	Liebman, Matt, author, editor.
Title	Ecological management of agricultural weeds / written and edited by Matt Liebman, Charles L. Mohler, Charles P. Staver.
Physical Description	1 online resource (xi, 532 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Weed management: a need for ecological approaches / Weed life history: identifying vulnerabilities / Knowledge, science, and practice in ecological weed management: farmer-extensionist-scientist interactions / Mechanical management of weeds / Weeds and the soil environment / Enhancing the competitive ability of crops / Crop diversification for weed management / Managing weeds with insects and pathogens / Livestock grazing for weed management /
Summary	Concerns over environmental and human health impacts of conventional weed management practices, herbicide resistance in weeds, and rising costs of crop production and protection have led agricultural producers and scientists in many countries to seek strategies that take greater advantage of ecological processes and thereby allow a reduction in herbicide use. This book provides principles and practices for ecologically based weed management in a wide range of temperate and tropical farming systems. After examining weed life histories and processes determining the assembly of weed communities, the authors describe how tillage and cultivation practices, manipulations of soil conditions, competitive cultivars, crop diversification, grazing livestock, arthropod and microbial biocontrol agents, and other factors can be used to reduce weed germination, growth, competitive ability, reproduction and dispersal. Special attention is given to the evolutionary challenges that weeds pose and the roles that farmers can play in the development of new weed-management strategies.
Added Author	Mohler, Charles L., 1947- author editor. Staver, Charles P., 1949- author editor.
Subject	Weeds Biological control. Weeds Ecology. AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY. Tillage. AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511541810

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Summary	Concerns over environmental and human health impacts of conventional weed management practices, herbicide resistance in weeds, and rising costs of crop production and protection have led agricultural producers and scientists in many countries to seek strategies that take greater advantage of ecological processes and thereby allow a reduction in herbicide use. This book provides principles and practices for ecologically based weed management in a wide range of temperate and tropical farming systems. After examining weed life histories and processes determining the assembly of weed communities, the authors describe how tillage and cultivation practices, manipulations of soil conditions, competitive cultivars, crop diversification, grazing livestock, arthropod and microbial biocontrol agents, and other factors can be used to reduce weed germination, growth, competitive ability, reproduction and dispersal. Special attention is given to the evolutionary challenges that weeds pose and the roles that farmers can play in the development of new weed-management strategies.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Weed management: a need for ecological approaches / Weed life history: identifying vulnerabilities / Knowledge, science, and practice in ecological weed management: farmer-extensionist-scientist interactions / Mechanical management of weeds / Weeds and the soil environment / Enhancing the competitive ability of crops / Crop diversification for weed management / Managing weeds with insects and pathogens / Livestock grazing for weed management /
Subject	Weeds Biological control. Weeds Ecology. AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY. Tillage. AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511541810