This book provides methods to manage woody plants that interfere with recreation, watershed yield, animal and plant diversity, resource conservation, wildlife and livestock needs, and wood production on grazing, forest, and related land.

Consolidating an extensive group of resources on woody plants, this reference/text on the historical significance and botanical nature of woody plants details strategies for managing woody plants and using research data to select the most appropriate control methods.

Additionally, this book analyzes the responses of over 370 North American woody plants to commercially available herbicides!

Summarizing the study and development of woody plant administration, Woody Plants and Woody Plant Management:

• fully describes the chemistry and properties of herbicides, alone and in combinations
• reviews the impact, operations, and safety requirements for the use of herbicides via sprays, injections, and soil treatments
• examines spray drift, vapor, and residue effects on crop plants such as cotton, tobacco, wheat, corn, and rice
• discusses current information affecting the phenoxy herbicide controversy
• determines which herbicides are best suited for treating specific problems and reveals testing procedures of greatest efficacy
• considers ecological shifts and responses and the effects of herbaceous weed and woody plant control on vegetation, tree crops, soil microorganisms and aquatic organisms, and insects
• explores mechanical and biological alternatives to chemical methods
• and more!

Containing more than 1300 helpful literature references, drawings, and tables, Woody Plants and Woody Plant Management contains all the reference needs of plant, crop, soil, and environmental scientists; agriculturists; horticulturists; agronomists; plant physiologists; and farmers and land managers; and serves as superb text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Contents:

1. Significance and Botanical Nature of Woody Plants
2. History and Development of Woody Plant Management
3. Herbicide Development
4. Chemistry and Properties of Herbicides Used
5. Herbicide Application Technology
6. Herbicide Residues and Impact on the Environment
7. Herbicide Toxicology and Safety
8. The Phenoxy Herbicide Controversy
9. Herbicide Fate and Activity in Woody Plants
10. Herbicide Spray Drift, Vapor, and Residue Effects on Crop Plants
11. Ecological Impact of Woody Plant Management
12. The Response of Woody Plants to Herbicides
13. Economics of Woody Plant Management
14. Nonchemical Methods of Woody Plant Control
15. Growing Woody Plants for Experimental Purposes

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