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In the coming years, farmers will face difficult challenges throughout the world in terms of climate change, water scarcity, and environmental issues caused by conventional agricultural technologies. Effective management of natural resources can be encouraged by orienting the common agricultural practices towards the functional biodiversity concept in designing and implementing sustainable and eco-friendly cropping systems. In the framework of polycrop science, this book provides basic principles and several case studies of polycrop utilization in various regions of the world as a method of functional biodiversity amplification through species associations that maximize the productivity per unit of land area, suppress the growth and development of weeds, and reduce the amount of harmful pests and insects.

Plant competition. --- Competition (Biology) --- Plant ecology --- Life Sciences --- Agronomy --- Agricultural and Biological Sciences --- Agroecology

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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.

Weeds --- Agricultural ecology. --- Tillage. --- Agricultural systems. --- Farming systems --- Systems, Agricultural --- Systems, Farming --- Agricultural geography --- Farm management --- Cultivation of soils --- Soil cultivation --- Soil tillage --- Tilling --- Agricultural systems --- Agriculture --- Soil management --- No-tillage --- Agroecology --- Ecology --- Permaculture --- Pest plants --- Weed plants --- Weedy plants --- Plant pests (Plants) --- Agricultural pests --- Botany, Economic --- Plants --- Bio-control of weeds --- Biocontrol of weeds --- Biological control of weeds --- Weed biocontrol --- Weed biological control --- Biological control. --- Ecology. --- Environmental aspects --- Control --- noxious plants --- pest control --- Integrated control --- Biological control --- Plant competition --- Tropical zones --- Temperate zones --- world