monoculture
Cultivation of large land areas with a single plant variety.
monoecious ...
monoculture The growth of only one species in a given area; such as a cornfield or other agricultural field.
Monoculture. The agricultural practice of cultivating crops consisting of genetically similar organisms.
Monogenic. Controlled by or associated with a single gene.
Movable genetic element. (See Transposon.) ...
Monoculture, the lack of biodiversity, was a contributing factor to several agricultural disasters in history, including the Irish Potato Famine, the European wine industry collapse in the late 1800s, ...
monoculture agroforestry Intensive planting of a single species; an efficient wood production approach, but one that encourages pests and disease infestations and conflicts with wildlife habitat or recreation uses.
And so you're able to look at the average response of all of these randomly chosen monocultures with the randomly chosen two species plots, and the fours, the eights, ...
monoculture following deforestation). Before 1992, others pointed out that no property rights or no access regulation of resources necessarily lead to their decrease (degrading costs having to be supported by the community).
Agriculture is a purposeful human intervention in which we create a monoculture of a single favored (crop) species such as corn. Most of the agricultural species are derived from pioneering communities.
Invasive Species: An introduced species that out-competes native species for space and resources. Scotch Broom is an invasive species that out-competes local vegetation and results in a monoculture, and hence a decrease in local diversity.
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