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Definition of Monocultures
1. monoculture [n] - See also: monoculture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monocultures
Literary usage of Monocultures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Working with Indigenous Knowledge: A Guide for Researchers by Louise Grenier (1998)
"The spread of monocultures of high-yielding varieties and fast-growing ...
Productivity and total yield of monocultures are high in terms of one product. ..."
2. Biological Control of Insects and Mites: An Introduction to Beneficial by Daniel L. Mahr, Nino M. Ridgway (1993)
"monocultures A monoculture is a continuous, expansive planting of one crop with
... However, monocultures provide pest insects with an abundance of food. ..."
3. Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by M. Boya Edwards (2001)
"INTRODUCTION Mixed-species plantations can potentially produce more biomass than
monocultures (Harper 1977, Kelty 1992, DeBell and Harrington 1993) as well ..."
4. Investing in Biological Diversity: The Cairns Conference : Proceedings of by OECD Staff (1997)
"However, having the world covered with monocultures is surely not the way to ...
We can look at the logistics, trying to reduce the monocultures reduce ..."
5. Rehabilitation of Degraded Forests to Improve Livelihoods of Poor Farmers in by Liu Dachang (2003)
"Timber species are dominant and most plantations are monocultures. Large-scale,
highly intensive, plantation forests are usually grown in monocultures to ..."
6. Forest Certification: A Policy Perspective by Chris Elliott (2000)
"The trend towards an increasing use of monocultures of Pinus contorta ... There is
no data available on trends in the use of monocultures of other species. ..."
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