Ecological Bulletins, Ecological Implications of Contemporary Agriculture

Proceedings of a Symposium Held 7-12 September, 1986, at Wageningen
Herausgeber: Eijsackers, H.; Quispel, A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Agronomists and ecologists need each other and can learn from each other: agriculture cannot ignore ecological facts, neither can ecology study and conserve ecosystems without understanding contemporary agriculture. With this intention a symposium was organized on "the ecological implications of contemporary agriculture". Five major groups of problems were discussed, related to major elements of the system, each corresponding to a session of the symposium: - the soil and its life; - the plants, especially the unwanted ones; - the fauna, with emphasis on the control of pests; - the nutrient cycles and nutrient budgets (the driving force); - the connecting elements in the rural landscape, related as they are with lotting out. For each subject (session) two invited papers were presented in combination with a varying number of posters. All these papers were encompassed by the opening and closing lectures, which sketch the societal framework within which a more ecological approach of agriculture has to be worked out. In this overview the different elements are rearranged and assessed according to four major groups of problems: lotting out, nutrient management, soil treatment, and weed and arthropod control. It is concluded with some comments on the possibilities to realize more ecological approaches in the framework of farming-practice and EC-politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Bulletin 39 edition
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9788716102270
• ISBN-10: 8716102274
• Artikelnr.: 22110507

Autorenporträt

H. Eijsackers and A. Quispel are the authors of Ecological Bulletins, Bulletin 39, Ecological Implications of Contemporary Agriculture: Proceedings of a Symposium held 7-12 September, 1986, at Wageningen, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Opening lecture: The limits to agriculture.

The substrate: how are we treating the soil?.

When is a plant a weed?.

The increasing need for ecological knowledge in pestcontrol.

Flow of water and nutrients through agro-ecosystems.

Relations between ecosystems in the rural landscape.

Closing lecture