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Optimising woody-weed control [PDF]

open access: yes
Woody weeds pose significant threats to the 12.3 billion dollar Australian grazing industry. These weeds reduce stocking rate, increase mustering effort, and impede cattle access to waterways. Two major concerns of woody-weed management are the high cost
Lawes, Roger A.   +2 more
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Vision-based weed identification with farm robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Robots in agriculture offer new opportunities for real time weed identification and quick removal operations. Weed identification and control remains one of the most challenging task in agriculture, particularly in organic agriculture practices ...
Nørremark, Michael   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Theories of care help explain a peri‐urban tree diversity paradox

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Since diversity is often a management objective for peri‐urban tree communities on public land, one might expect to find greater diversity there than on private land, where such objectives are less common. However, this expectation rests on an assumption that people control diversity towards objectives, overlooking the role of relationships ...
Jacqueline Hamilton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling weed population dynamics: impact of cultural control and climate change [PDF]

open access: yes
Over the last three decades, concern about food safety and the management of natural resources has increased. Instigated by the previous EU pesticide review, (EU 91/414) carrot growers in particular have been hit by the revocation of several post ...
Brak, Bastiaan
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Economics and adoption perspectives of site-specific weed management: A review

open access: yesPrecision Agriculture
Abstract Purpose Site-specific weed management (SSWM) has become recognised as a promising strategy to reduce herbicide use without compromising crop yield. Despite technological advances, the economic viability and adoption of this technology remain uncertain.
Vladyslav Pitsyk   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Pathways to care in pinyon–juniper woodlands: Insights from Indigenous‐led monitoring and a public survey

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation decisions often require navigating tensions among ecological, cultural, economic and social priorities. While debates frequently centre on single‐species outcomes, less is known about how care for landscapes may contribute to co‐stewardship.
Diana S. Macias   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of a site-specific weed management strategy [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Studies were conducted in 1997 and 1998 to compare conventional to site-specific weed management techniques. Field experiments were conducted in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Tredaway, Joyce Allison
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Proximal sensing pipeline for field-scale mapping of individual weeds using low-cost components and YOLO object detection

open access: yesSmart Agricultural Technology
Weed mapping using deep learning remains underexplored despite its potential to support site-specific weed management and spatial analysis of weed distribution.
Alex G. Rodriguez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Resilience for restoration: Insights from the Northern Great Plains native seed system

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Native plants are essential to ecological restoration and culturally important to local and Tribal communities, yet native seed systems across the United States (US) struggle to meet restoration demand. In the US Northern Great Plains, land conversion of native ecosystems means restoration potential is high but constrained by an underdeveloped
Elena Friedman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
wiley   +1 more source

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