Sentence examples for within crop from inspiring English sources

Associated plant and animal diversity provides ecosystem services within crop production systems.

The habitat of a population of Common tree frog Hyla arborea L. was improved by establishing set aside strips along ponds, which are located within crop fields.

Despite that an extensive literature describes the theoretical mechanisms of turbulent water vapour transport above and within crop canopies fewer studies have examined land surface parameters within composite landscapes of irrigated crops and semi-arid natural vegetation.

Conventionally, herbicides are applied uniformly in the fields, while there is strong evidence that weeds are not distributed uniformly within crop fields and they tend to occur in clumps or patches.

However, it is still not well known whether this resource provisioning effect is strong enough to improve herbivore regulation within crop fields and which plant species and functional groups favour this ecosystem service.

The pollinator species foraging within crop fields differed significantly from those found within adjacent hedgerows and bare or weedy field edges, with hedgerows supporting higher species richness than crop fields or unenhanced edges.

The third experiment was designed to model secondary, within-crop spread of phytoplasmas, since the source plants were treated, in an attempt to prevent phytoplasma acquisition.

For lapwing, the difference was only partly due to differences in crop type, but differences in within-crop factors (probably as a result of crop management) were likely to have had an effect as well.

Cultivar mixtures are a straightforward way to increase within-crop diversity, but they have so far been poorly used by farmers and they are not encouraged by advisory services.

Differences in territory densities between the two farm types were explained examining the effects of three factors on territory densities: (1) non-crop habitats, (2) crop types and (3) within-crop factors.

Harvest strategies that create within-crop structural diversity (e.g. strip harvesting) or that produce a mosaic of harvested and unharvested patches during the migratory period could be a useful management tool [1], [5], [49].