New Insights into Management Practices, Weeds and Invasive Plants in Perennial Crops
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Floriculture, Nursery and Landscape, and Turf".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 267
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Horticulturae Journal will publish a special issue devoted to the topic: New insights into management practices, weeds and invasive plants in perennial crops.
We encourage contributions that explore the relationship between management practices and the dynamics of weed communities, with particular attention on invasive plants both from a theoretical and applied level.
By the particular permanent nature of perennial crops, their management involves a wide variety of techniques in order to maximize crop production while optimizing resources and reducing the competition of weed species. However, the intensification of some management systems in the last decades has driven changes in the weed communities which can enhance the prominence of noxious species, such as invasive plants. These changes can be observed from a both temporal and spatial scale.
Because of the negative effects of invasive plants on the crop production and on the natural habitats surrounding crops, disentangling the relationship between the invasion dynamics and management practices is crucial for developing and upgrading management systems that help us to prevent the establishment and success of invasive weeds while maximizing crop production.
Dr. Alejandro Juárez-Escario
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- tree orchards
- vineyard, alien plants
- irrigation
- soil management
- functional traits
- species dominance
- plant assemblages
