By Steven R. Radosevich
ISBN-10: 0470168935
ISBN-13: 9780470168936
ISBN-10: 0471767794
ISBN-13: 9780471767794
The vintage reference on weeds and invasive crops has been revised and updated.The 3rd version of this authoritative reference presents an in-depth realizing of ways weeds and invasive crops strengthen and have interaction within the atmosphere so that you can deal with and keep an eye on them extra successfully. The advisor comprises an advent to weeds and invasive crops in a number of environments and an summary in their ecology and evolution. With wide examples, this publication: specializes in the organic good points of weeds and invasive crops, specifically as they exist in agriculture, forests, rangelands, and traditional ecosystems. comprises assurance of unique invasive vegetation. Discusses quite a few tools and instruments for dealing with weeds and invasive crops, together with actual, cultural, organic, and chemical methods. Examines structures methods for administration, together with glossy built-in Pest administration. Addresses destiny demanding situations for scientists, farmers, and land managers.This is the definitive, hands-on reference if you are a land supervisor or expert in plant sciences, agronomy, weed technology, and horticulture. The ebook is additionally an outstanding textbook for senior undergraduate or graduate scholars learning agriculture, ecology, common assets administration, environmental administration, or similar fields.
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In the United States, by one estimate, introduced invasive plants comprise from 8 to 47% of the total flora of most states (Rejma´nek and Randall 1994). Of the 250 recognized major agricultural weeds, nearly 70% occur in only 12 plant families and over 40% are found in only two families, Poaceae (grass family) and Asteraceae (aster or composite family). Although these observations are fruitful areas of speculation for plant evolutionary biologists, it should be noted that about 75% of world food production is provided by only a dozen crops: barley, maize, millet, oats, rice, sorghum, sugarcane, wheat, cassava, soybean, sweet potato, and white potato.
Common characteristics of these weeds are rapid dry-matter production, large stem extension, and high leaf area production. WEEDS AND INVASIVE PLANTS IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS There are many books that describe and identify weeds. 3) (Holm et al. 1977, 1997). Most weeds are important, however, from a more local perspective. The local distribution of weeds is influenced by biotic and abiotic environmental factors that determine habitat types and human activities. Abiotic factors that affect weed occurrence are soil type, soil pH, soil moisture, light quantity and quality, precipitation pattern, and variation in air, soil, and water temperatures.
Billings (1990) compared the writings of both men and noted the following differences in range conditions that occurred over that 50-year time period: . . . Desirable livestock browse shrubs decreased. ” Burn scars were “absent or unimportant” in 1902. In 1952 much of the route was bordered or crossed by “burned-off range” and covered by cheatgrass or little rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus). Big sagebrush replaced “bluegrass meadows” at lower elevations. ” All of the conditions in the above list indicate heavy grazing, cheatgrass invasion, and occurrence of repeated fires.
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