Sentence examples for spread of weed from inspiring English sources

There is increasing interest in documenting and understanding the spread of weed genes or genotypes in cropping systems.

Other reasons are to prevent the spread of weeds and invasive species into private gardens and pressure from local communities to maintain a certain aesthetic appearance.

The subsequent expansion of agriculture led to much clearing of forests and the spread of weeds and other indicators of open habitats.

The technique has been tested with data from an area in northeast Victoria, Australia and has successfully represented the dynamic spread of weeds (blackberries) and their effects on landscape over a period of 14 years.

The species has been implicated in the spread of weeds by consuming and dispersing fruit and seed.

Three major methods have been adopted to control the spread of weeds: mechanical, chemical and biological (Tu et al. 2001).

Rabbits have a severe impact on the native Australian vegetation and fauna; they are associated with the spread of weeds and introduced plants.

Mulch can also help prevent the spread of weeds.

The high viability of spores associated with rapid vegetative propagation is responsible for the spread of the weed producing vast thick mats and, with the impending global warming, the weed will create havoc to water bodies at the expense of submerged exotic plants in many parts of the world (Netten et al. 2010).

It also found that they reduced the spread of woody weed plants, that their soft feet did not break up the top soil and that they were easily worked in conventional cattle yards.

More fuel, with a longer life — Ziska says that the rise in greenhouse gases we have already achieved may have played a decisive role in the spread of a weed that has already transformed the ecology of the Western United States.