State-of-the-Art Research on Weed Populations and Community Dynamics
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Weed Science and Weed Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 85
Special Issue Editors
Interests: weed bioecology; integrated weed management; population dynamics; community dynamics; modelling; decision support systems
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Interests: weed control; herbicide resistance; modes of action of herbicides; integrated weed management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In order to contribute effectively to the sustainability of agriculture, there must be a change in mindset regarding weed management since in most situations the actual focus is still limited to knowledge on the control of a given weed species affecting a given crop or only during the agronomic cycle. However, no single control method translates into a fully effective solution to a weed problem. Therefore, weed management should be approached as an integrated science adopting a combination of a simultaneous set of varied strategies. To achieve such a goal, the understanding of both weed populations and community dynamics is of uppermost importance to the management and prediction of their spatial and temporal evolution under increasingly complex scenarios, such as climate change and/or herbicide resistance evolution. Knowledge of such dynamics makes it possible to improve comprehension of the long‐term effects of different management strategies, predict the evolution of herbicide resistance, and forecast the geographical expansion of weeds as a consequence of climate change.
In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to contribute with novel and original studies, reviews, and opinion pieces covering all topics related to weed population and community dynamics, such as demography studies, population-/community-level dynamic models, spatially explicit models, the evolution of herbicide resistance, adaptation to weed management methods, new and emerging weeds, etc.
Dr. Guillermo R. Chantre
Dr. Marcos Yanniccari
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- weed bioecology
- weed management
- alternative control methods
- field emergence
- weed competition
- tactical planning
- operational planning
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