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Weed management continues to face many challenges, including
herbicide resistance, invasive species, climate change and how best
to deploy the range of non-chemical control methods available. To
tackle these challenges, integrated weed management (IWM) needs to
evolve to embrace a more holistic, landscape-based agroecological
approach. Advances in integrated weed management provides an
authoritative review of the latest developments in IWM. The book
covers new research on understanding weed ecology as a basis for
more sustainable control, as well as developments in technology to
better target IWM techniques. This collection also offers examples
of how advances are being applied in practice for particular crops.
Edited by Professor Per Kudsk, Aarhus University, Denmark, Advances
in integrated weed management will be a standard reference for weed
scientists, researchers in crop protection, agronomists, farmers,
companies supplying/manufacturing pesticides, and government and
private sector agencies supporting sustainable agriculture.
This edited volume documents the current nature conservation status
of arable habitats in Europe. Arable farming systems have evolved
in the European landscape over more than ten thousand years and now
occupy nearly 30% of the European land area. They support species
that have life cycles closely synchronised with traditional cereal
growing, many of which have experienced massive declines throughout
Europe. For example, in Britain, of the 100 plant species
exhibiting the greatest declines in the latter half of the 20th
century, 47 were typical of arable land. Despite this the habitat
and many of the species associated with it remains unprotected
across much of Europe. The 22 chapters cover a range of topics,
including: * Regional accounts describing the impact of changing
agricultural practices on the arable flora; * The results of
research and surveillance projects on the soil organisms, bryophyte
flora, invertebrate fauna and pollinators of arable habitats; * The
potential for designing multifunctional and resilient agricultural
landscapes; The use of ex situ conservation to aid the
reintroduction of rare arable plants; * Case studies illustrating
how changing agricultural practices have impacted on bird
populations in Europe; * The roles of remote sensing in monitoring
agricultural systems; * How agri-environment schemes can help
restore the biodiversity in arable habitats; and * A look forward
at ways to help ensure the future security of the species
associated with arable habitats. It is clear that the biodiversity
of arable land throughout Europe has undergone major changes,
particularly during the second half of the 20th century, and that
these changes are continuing into the 21st century. We need to
develop a deeper appreciation of farmland wildlife and its
integration into farming systems to ensure its future security in a
world where value is increasingly expressed in terms of material
profit. This book is particularly relevant to practitioners,
policy-makers and managers working in the fields of nature
conservation, agri-environment schemes and land management, and to
researchers working in the fields of conservation biology,
terrestrial ecology, nature conservation, applied ecology,
biodiversity, agriculture, agricultural ethics and environmental
studies.
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