A Competitive Ratio for Quantifying Competition Between Intercrops
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Experimental Agriculture
- Vol. 16 (2) , 117-125
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0014479700010802
Abstract
SUMMARY: A simple competitive ratio (CR) is proposed as a measure of intercrop competition, to indicate the number of times by which one component crop is more competitive than the other. Intercropping data show that this CR term could be useful in (i) comparing the competitive ability of different crops, (ii) measuring competitive changes within a given combination, (iii) identifying which plant characters are associated with competitive ability, and (iv) determining what competitive balance between components is most likely to give maximum yield advantages.Keywords
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