Defoliation
A defoliant is any herbicidal chemical sprayed or dusted on plants to cause their leaves to fall off. Defoliants are widely used for the selective removal of weeds in managing croplands and lawns. Worldwide use of defoliants, along with the development of other herbicides and pesticides, allowed for the Green Revolution, an increase in agricultural production in mid-20th century. Defoliants have also been used in warfare as a means to deprive an enemy of food crops and/or hiding cover, most notably by the United Kingdom during the Malayan Emergency and the United States in the Vietnam War.
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TI: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut · 16 October 2023 German
Thünen Working Paper 223
different federal states with regard to their crown defoliation. The joint evaluation and discussion of training …
PNG NRI: PNG National Research Institute · 2 October 2023 English
Prior to the study, the pre- assessment noted that about 80 percent to 90 percent of the The adverse impacts of climate change on the households in the study areas …
market access barriers. Currently, (e.g. weeding, defoliation local food production is not competitive with …
Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis · 11 September 2023 English
Cen t r e o f Exce l l en ce f o r B i o se cu r i t y R i sk Ana l y s …
surveillance in play. Obvious defoliation 1225 High Could take 10 years for defoliation – traps better for detecting …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 5 September 2023 English
Warmer and drier conditions increase forest mortality worldwide. At the same time, nitrogen deposition, longer growing seasons and higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations may increase site productivity accelerating forest growth. However, …
13 Landh¨ausser, S.M., Lieffers, V.J., 2012. Defoliation increases risk of carbon starvation in root …
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research · 19 July 2023 English
Building an evidence base to monitor and assess the impacts of initiatives is explicitly mentioned in Objective 4 of the plan, specifically: • tracking a range of existing measures to …
cultivation, sowing, harvesting, and (2023). defoliation; NIWA data on 30-year average monthly climate …
WWF: World Wildlife Fund Canada · 5 June 2023
In brief, while the conservation and restoration of marine ecosystems NCS have the potential to meaningfully contribute to mitigating the biodiversity and climate serve as NCS, blue carbon ecosystems themselves …
location, Eclipse Sound; this near-complete defoliation of kelp forests in some sections of Atlantic … (Pratt et al. in press). Despite the extensive defoliation, healthy kelp forests remain which caused extensive …
EcoLogic: Ecologic Institute US · 5 June 2023 English
ETC technical paper template 2016
unfavourable conservation status. Most importantly, defoliation, a key natural bio-indicator that can be used …
CI: Conservation International · 1 June 2023
As an affiliate, Conservation South Africa subscribes to the aspirational vision and mission, strategic framework, and operational requirements of Conservation International, but is enabled to adapt language and specific policies …
Z.S., Hawkins H.-J., Cramer M.D. (2021) Does defoliation frequency and severity influence plant productivity …
Local Futures/ International Society for Ecology and Culture · 26 May 2023 English
The aims of Roots of Change are: • to encourage a broad analysis of the origins and workings of the global economy. [...] To help your study circle approach the …
(1997) ‘Education as an Instrument of Cultural Defoliation: A Multi-Voiced Report’ p. 152-160 in Rahnema …
