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monoculture
Extensive cultivation of one crop. It maximizes use of farm machinery, but increases risks of crop disease, pest infestation, and impaired soil structure.
Regarding to the different microhabitats, the monoculture edge exhibited greatest richness (14 species) and abundance, followed by polyculture edge and polyculture with 13 species each, forest with nine, and monoculture with four species (Table 2).
According to the report Mr Clarke warns that if the issue was not tackled, Birmingham schoolchildren would be confined in an 'intolerant, inward-looking monoculture that severely inhibit their participation in the life of modern Britain."
The only deforestation that has occurred in Western Oregon is a result of urbanization and traditional agricultural farms, such as the one that Sundquist farms in Coburg, which have replaced forests and grasslands with monoculture farms.
The mixed culture fermentations may have a synergistic effect, increasing the concentration of aromatic compounds produced in fermentations conducted in monoculture [9,15-18].
Replicated field studies were carried out comparing whole plant thrips densities on snow pea grown in monoculture, on snow pea intercropped with faba bean, and on faba bean grown in monoculture.
In this study, we evaluated post-restoration recovery of a non-vegetated high marsh berm in Brookhurst Marsh, Huntington Beach, CA, with two active planting strategies: monoculture plots of the competitive dominant Sarcocornia pacifica (pickleweed) versus polyculture plots of pickleweed and eight other common salt marsh plant species.
"There is an enormous amount of land that could be developed, and developed not into urban jungles, but into beautiful garden cities with parks and waterways, areas that are more biodiverse than the agricultural monoculture that they replace."
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