Studies on the Weeds of Vegetable Crops: I. Initial Effects of Cropping on the Weed Seeds in the Soil
- 1 November 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Ecology
- Vol. 46 (3) , 759-768
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2257549
Abstract
At the start of a series of long-term experiments with vegetable crops, an average of 229 million viable weed seeds per acre was recorded in the top 6 in. of soil. After 1 year of cropping the population had fallen to 38% of that originally present and after 2 years, a further reduction to 19% had taken place. Individual weed species varied widely in their response.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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