Weeds are a fascinating study for specialists, not only because of their economic importance, but also since in this case biology must be combined with history and agriculture (and its economic aspects). Thus, weed scientists may be concerned with pure basic research, concentrating on general aspects, or with applied science, i.e. having a practical orientation. One of the aims of this book is to create a synthesis between these two branches of study and to review the literature of both fields. The agrestals, the weeds of arable land ~ the most important group from an economic point of view ~ was chasen as the main topic. Other weed groups could only be mentioned briefly (e.g. grassland weeds), or superficially (e.g. aquatic weeds), or had to be omitted completely (e.g. ruderals, because they are so heterogeneous), to keep this volume to an acceptable size and price. Nevertheless, nearly all subsections of botanical science have been treated.

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Klaus Fichter

Springer Science + Business Media BV

Place of publication not identified, 2010

Geobotany, 1st ed. 1982, Dordrecht, 1982

Springer Nature, Dordrecht, 2013

Netherlands, Netherlands

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Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Concepts, categories and characteristics of weeds....Pages 3-20
A methodology for the study of weed vegetation....Pages 21-34
Problems of weed taxonomy....Pages 35-45
Biological control of weeds....Pages 47-56
Preservation of agrestal weeds....Pages 57-59
Golden words and wisdom about weeds....Pages 61-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Ecological genetics and the evolution of weeds....Pages 73-89
Relationships between weeds and crops....Pages 91-96
The Middle East as a cradle for crops and weeds....Pages 97-109
Reproductive strategy of annual agrestals....Pages 111-121
Multiplication, growth and persistence of perennial weeds....Pages 123-135
Competition between crop and weeds: A system approach....Pages 137-148
Interference between weeds and crops: A review of literature....Pages 149-159
An introduction to the population dynamics of weeds....Pages 161-168
Weed-ecological approaches to allelopathy....Pages 169-173
Parasitic weeds of arable land....Pages 175-185
Weeds as indicators....Pages 187-190
Wild oats as successful weeds....Pages 191-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Europe: an overview....Pages 203-226
Western Mediterranean countries of Europe....Pages 227-243
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Italy....Pages 245-256
Iran....Pages 257-266
India....Pages 267-275
Mongolia....Pages 277-279
Kamchatka Peninsula....Pages 281-284
Japan....Pages 285-297
New Zealand....Pages 299-308
Canada....Pages 309-331
Brazil....Pages 333-337
South Africa....Pages 339-343
East Africa....Pages 345-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Weeds of pastures and meadows in the European Alps....Pages 375-385
Pasture weeds of New Zealand....Pages 387-394
Weeds of pastures and meadows in Japan....Pages 395-401
Pasture weeds of the tropics and subtropics with special reference to Australia....Pages 403-427
Weed problems of South African pastures....Pages 429-434
Weeds of tea plantations....Pages 435-448
Aquatic weeds....Pages 449-456
Back Matter....Pages 457-461

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