It is well known that soil sealing strongly affects seedling emergence. The effect of soil sealing on the emergence of flax and turnip seedlings was studied in the laboratory. Seeds were sown in pots, watered, then covered ...

Infection of large crabgrass by loose smut occurs in the first centimetres of the soil profile. To understand the spatial-temporal disease dynamics, we try to find out the importance of the spatial distribution of spores ...

A wild loose smut–summer annual grass interaction was studied to explore the relative importance of some local spatiotemporal patterns of variation for its existence. The prevalence-related variable measured was the ...

Over the last decade high-quality timber plantations have increased in Europe because of the constanthigh market price of timber and economical incentives from the EU. These latter are mainly due to timberplantations’ role ...