Conservation Agriculture and Agroecological Weed Management
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Weed Science and Weed Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 June 2021) | Viewed by 39217
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Conservation agriculture (CA) relies on three fundamental pillars: diversified crop rotation, permanent soil cover, and no soil disturbance (i.e., only the soil disturbance by the seeder is tolerated). In CA, there are fewer weed control possibilities because pre-sowing tillage and in-crop mechanical weeding are not possible. This may impact the weed community’s taxonomic or functional composition and thus weeding tactics over time. Despite all the ecosystem services provided by CA systems, weed/crop volunteer management as well as cover crop termination mainly rely on the use of herbicides such as glyphosate, worldwide.
This Special Issue will focus on “Conservation Agriculture and Agroecological Weed Management”. We welcome new research, reviews, and opinion articles covering all related topics, including the relative role of the three pillars on weed management, biodiversity-based weed management in CA, new practices to limit weed establishment or spread, weed dynamics over time, functional approaches, weed–crop competition, seedbank, interactions between weeds and others organisms, successful experiences in designing and testing pesticide-free CA systems, and the role of livestock in CA systems to manage weeds.
Dr. Stéphane Cordeau
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- conservation agriculture
- cover crop
- no-till
- biodiversity-based weed management
- trait
- cropping system
- livestock
- weed suppression
- weed–crop competition
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