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Reviewing research priorities in weed ecology, evolution and management: a horizon scan

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Title Reviewing research priorities in weed ecology, evolution and management: a horizon scan
 
Creator Neve, P.
Barney, J.N.
Buckley, Y.
Cousens, R.D.
Graham, S.
Jordan, N.R.
Lawton-Rauh, Amy L
Liebman, M.
Mesgaran, M.B.
Schut, Marc
Shaw, J.
Storkey, J.
Baraibar, B.
Baucom, R.S.
Chalak, M.
Childs, D.Z.
Christensen, S.
Eizenberg, H.
Fernández Quintanilla, C.
French, K.
Harsch, M.
Heijting, S.
Harrison, L.
Loddo, D.
Macel, M.
Maczey, N.
Merotto Jr, A.
Mortensen, D.
Necajev, J.
Peltzer, D.A.
Recasens, J.
Renton, M.
Riemens, M.
Sonderskov, M.
Williams, M.
 
Subject weed management
agroecology
weeds
adaptation
food security
climate change
 
Description Weedy plants pose a major threat to food security, biodiversity, ecosystem services and consequently to human health and wellbeing. However, many currently used weed management approaches are increasingly unsustainable. To address this knowledge and practice gap, in June 2014, 35 weed and invasion ecologists, weed scientists, evolutionary biologists and social scientists convened a workshop to explore current and future perspectives and approaches in weed ecology and management. A horizon scanning exercise ranked a list of 124 pre‐submitted questions to identify a priority list of 30 questions. These questions are discussed under seven themed headings that represent areas for renewed and emerging focus for the disciplines of weed research and practice. The themed areas considered the need for transdisciplinarity, increased adoption of integrated weed management and agroecological approaches, better understanding of weed evolution, climate change, weed invasiveness and finally, disciplinary challenges for weed science. Almost all the challenges identified rested on the need for continued efforts to diversify and integrate agroecological, socio‐economic and technological approaches in weed management. These challenges are not newly conceived, though their continued prominence as research priorities highlights an ongoing intransigence that must be addressed through a more system‐oriented and transdisciplinary research agenda that seeks an embedded integration of public and private research approaches. This horizon scanning exercise thus set out the building blocks needed for future weed management research and practice; however, the challenge ahead is to identify effective ways in which sufficient research and implementation efforts can be directed towards these needs.
 
Date 2018-08
2018-08-16T15:37:28Z
2018-08-16T15:37:28Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Neve, P., Barney, J.N., Buckley, Y., Cousens, R.D., Graham, S., Jordan, N.R., ... & Williams, M. (2018). Reviewing research priorities in weed ecology, evolution and management: a horizon scan. Weed Research, 58(4), 250-258.
0043-1737
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/96585
https://doi.org/10.1111/wre.12304
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 250-258
application/pdf
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Source Weed Research