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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The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment · 27 February 2024 English
Policies and governance for heat While the most effective way to minimise the longer-term impacts of extreme heat is through cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the severity and frequency of …
Trees react to stress as they age through crown defoliation, early wilting, shedding of branches and lowered …
OXMS: Oxford Martin School · 21 February 2024 English
Proc. R. Soc. B. 2024.291:20232669
inputs of organic material to the soil through defoliation intensity (Milchunas and Lauenroth, 1993, Mayel …
QUT Centre for Justice · 13 February 2024 English
The unintended consequences of mining, such as loss of community and traditional livelihoods and increases in the cost of living, have led to the assertion that the original residents of …
dynamics in a southern African savanna: Patchy defoliation of Colophospermum mopane savanna by Imbrasia …
QUT Centre for Justice · 13 February 2024 English
The unintended consequences of mining, such as loss of community and traditional livelihoods and increases in the cost of living, have led to the assertion that the original residents of …
dynamics in a southern African savanna: Patchy defoliation of Colophospermum mopane savanna by Imbrasia …
ICIMOD: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development · 1 January 2024 English
This extraordinary array of millet species forms the foundation of the intricate relationship between the people of Nepal and their environment, with each variety playing a unique role in the …
spore masses. Severe cases may lead to plant defoliation, stunting, yellowing, and even death. Infection … for good yield. In maize-millet relay cropping defoliation of maize leaves below ear improve the millet …
Victorian National Parks Association · 11 December 2023 English
The fact that one of the On the back of this and many and endangered wildlife and plants. [...] suck up the moisture of our perspiration! And once camping in …
and by 2003 a colony of about odour, cause defoliation of trees fter 10 years of service to VNPA While …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 7 December 2023 English
grassland, a hot and a cold steppe for which we simulated several management scenarios with different defoliation intensities and resource limitations. LPJmL-CSR captured the grassland dynamics well under observed …
several management scenarios with different defoliation intensities and resource limitations. LPJmL-CSR … fertiliser ap- plied (temperate grassland) or the defoliation intensity (hot and cold steppe). We extended … and lmro not only underpin the compensation of defoliation but also play a role for resource uptake and … distribution. In the ungrazed sce- nario (C0), no defoliation has to be compensated and both parameters only …
EU: European Union · 28 November 2023 English
over-harvesting) and forest conditions (e.g. defoliation, data on other forest species or structural …
EU: European Union · 27 November 2023 English
finer. Frequency: at least annual. (e) Defoliation Description: significant negative deviation …
EU: European Union · 27 November 2023 English
forest type; (c) forest connectivity; (d) defoliation; (e) forest fires; (f) wildfire risk assessment; …