Book ID: 92925
Liebman, Matt, Charles L. Mohler and Charles P. Staver
Ecological Management of Agricultural Weeds. 2007. 81 line drawings. 39 tabs. 544 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.
Provides principles and practices for ecologically based weed management in a wide range of temperate and tropical farming systems.After examining weed practices, manipulations of soil conditions, cultivars, crop diversification, grazing livestock, arthropod and microbial biocontrol agents, and other factors can be used to reduceweed 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 developmentof new weed-management strategies.- A hardcover edition is available aswell.