Modeling seedling emergence

F Forcella, RLB Arnold, R Sanchez, CM Ghersa - Field Crops Research, 2000 - Elsevier
Most common approaches to predicting or documenting seedling emergence are imprecise.
Mechanistic models that simulate seed dormancy and germination and seedling elongation …

Environmental control of dormancy in weed seed banks in soil

RL Benech-Arnold, RA Sánchez, F Forcella, BC Kruk… - Field crops …, 2000 - Elsevier
Dormancy is a common attribute of many weed seed populations and this usually hampers
the task of predicting timing and extent of emergence of weeds. Both the number of …

Implications of weed seedbank dynamics to weed management

DD Buhler, RG Hartzler, F Forcella - Weed Science, 1997 - cambridge.org
The species composition and density of weed seed in the soil vary greatly and are closely
linked to the cropping history of the land. Altering tillage practices changes weed seed depth …

Cover crop and soil quality interactions in agroecosystems

DC Reicosky, F Forcella - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 1998 - jswconline.org
Maintaining environmental quality implies sustainable agricultural production systems that
preserve and prated soil resources. Cover crops play a dual rote maintaining resource quality …

[HTML][HTML] Crop species diversity changes in the United States: 1978–2012

…, GG Gramig, JR Hendrickson, DW Archer, F Forcella… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Anecdotal accounts regarding reduced US cropping system diversity have raised concerns
about negative impacts of increasingly homogeneous cropping systems. However, formal …

Weed seedbanks of the US corn belt: magnitude, variation, emergence, and application

F Forcella, RG Wilson, KA Renner, J Dekker… - Weed Science, 1992 - cambridge.org
Seedbanks and seedling emergence of annual weeds were examined in arable fields at
eight locations in the Corn Belt. Seed densities were estimated by direct seed extraction from …

Prediction of weed seedling densities from buried seed reserves

F Forcella - Weed Research, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Résumé: Zusammenfassung Bioeconomic models for weed management ultimately require
knowledge of weed densities. Weed seedling populations may be predicted by multiplying …

Weed seed bank emergence across the Corn Belt

F Forcella, RG Wilson, J Dekker, RJ Kremer… - Weed Science, 1997 - cambridge.org
Field experiments, conducted from 1991 to 1994, generated information on weed seedbank
emergence for 22 site-years from Ohio to Colorado and Minnesota to Missouri. Early spring …

Using pennycress, camelina, and canola cash cover crops to provision pollinators

CA Eberle, MD Thom, KT Nemec, F Forcella… - Industrial crops and …, 2015 - Elsevier
As pollinator decline continues, the need to provide high value forage for insects increases.
Finding agricultural crops to diversify the landscape and provide forage is one way to …

Application of weed seedbank ecology to low‐input crop management

F Forcella, K Eradat-Oskoui… - Ecological …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Pesticide use in the United States is concentrated in the Corn Belt, mainly in the form of
herbicides on corn (Zea mays) and soybean (Glycine max). If this chemical load to the …