Arable Weeds and Management in Europe

By

Bürger, Jana
Metcalfe, Helen
Von Redwitz, Christoph
Cirujeda, Alicia
Fogliatto, Silvia
Fried, Guillaume
Fu Dostatny, Denise
Glemnitz, Michael
Gerowitt, Bärbel
González-Andújar, José Luis
Hernández Plaza, Eva
Izquierdo, Jordi
Kolářová, Michaela
Ņečajeva, Jevgenija
Petit, Sandrine
Pinke, Gyula
Schumacher, Matthias
Ulber, Lena
Vidotto, Francesco

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-12-21

Original Publication

Vegetation classification and survey

Volume

1

Pages

169--170

Subjects

Agriculture , arable weed , Europe , Management , segetal plant , vegetation-plot database

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers 2020-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/61419

 

Abstract

“Arable Weeds and Management in Europe” is a collection of weed vegetation records from arable fields in Europe, initiated within the Working Group Weeds and Biodiversity of the European Weed Research Society (EWRS). Vegetation-plot data from this scientific community was not previously contributed to databases. We aim to prove the usefulness of collection for large scale studies through some first analyses. We hope to assure other weed scientists who have signalled willingness to share data, and plan to construct a full data base, making the data available for easy sharing. Presently, the collection has over 60,000 records, taken between 1996 and 2015. Many more studies for potential inclusion exist. Data originate mostly from studies exploring the effect of agricultural management on weed vegetation. The database is accompanied with extensive meta-data on crop and weed management on the surveyed fields. The criteria for inclusion were a minimum amount of information on the cultivated crop, and a georeference. Most fields were surveyed repeatedly, i.e. transects, multiple random plots, or repeated visits. All surveys aimed to record the complete vegetation on the plots. Sometimes, taxa were identified only to genus level, due to survey dates very early in the vegetation period. Plant taxonomy is standardized to the Euro+Med PlantBase.