ABSTRACT
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 integrated weed management (IWM), including the change in approach to the complex ways weeds interact with their environment and with each other, as well as how some species may have the ability to contribute to ecosystem services such as soil health. This collection explores these developments and offers examples of how they are being applied in practice for particular crops.
Part 1: Weed ecology 1. Advances in understanding weed species functional diversity and ecological impacts 2. Advances in understanding weed community growth and dynamics 3. Advances in understanding weed seed bank ecology and control 4. Advances in understanding allelopathic interactions between weeds and crops 5. Advances in understanding the ecology of invasive weed species Part 2: Intelligent weed control technologies (IWCT) 6. Advances in modelling weed dynamics 7. Developing decision support systems (DSS) for weed management 8. Advances in sensor technology for weed scouting and mapping 9. Advances in precision application technologies for weed management 10. Advances in mechanical weed control technologies Part 3: Case studies 11. Understanding farmer’s attitudes to weed management and barriers to adopting integrated weed management (IWM) 12. Optimising integrated weed management in narrow-row crop cultivation 13. Optimising integrated weed management in pasture/rangelands 14. Optimising integrated weed management in tree crop cultivation 15. The economics of integrated weed management (IWM)
