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Valuing the biodiversity gains from protecting native plant communities from bitou bush (Chrysanthemoides monilifera subsp rotundata (DC.) T.Norl.) in New South Wales: application...

Sinden, Jack A.; Downey, Paul O.; Hester, Susan M.; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008

communities from a major weed in Australia, by following this approach. In 1999, invasion of coastal areas of New South Wales by …, valuation of biodiversity, benefit-cost analysis, weed control, defensive-expenditure method. …

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Factors influencing adoption of conservation tillage in Australian cropping regions

D'Emden, Francis H.; Llewellyn, Rick S.; Burton, Michael P. - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 52 (2008) 2

The purpose of this research is to improve understanding of conservation tillage adoption decisions by identifying key biophysical and socio-economic factors influencing no-till adoption by grain growers across four Australian cropping regions. The study is based on interviews with 384 grain...

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Optimal control for a dispersing biological agent

Chalak, Morteza - In: Journal of agricultural and resource economics : JARE ; … 39 (2014) 2, pp. 271-289

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Using a choice experiment to improve decision support tool design

Kragt, M. E.; Llewellyn, R. S. - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 36 (2014) 2, pp. 351-371

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Solving non-linear, non-smooth and non-convex optimal power flow problems using chaotic invasive weed optimization algorithms based on chaos

Ghasemi, Mojtaba; Ghavidel, Sahand; Akbari, Ebrahim; … - In: Energy 73 (2014) C, pp. 340-353

Invasive Weed Optimization (IWO) algorithm is a simple but powerful algorithm which is capable of solving general multi …

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Identifying the challenges of promoting ecological weed management (EWM) in organic agroecosystems through the lens of behavioral decision making

Zwickle, Sarah; Wilson, Robyn; Doohan, Doug - In: Agriculture and Human Values 31 (2014) 3, pp. 355-370

Ecological weed management (EWM) is a scientifically established management approach that uses ecological patterns to … reduce weed seedbanks. Such an approach can save organic farmers time and labor costs and reduce the need for repeated … to promoting effective weed management in organic agroecosystems, we use the mental models approach to generate an expert …

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Success of diagnostic approach to rainfed, wheat-based cropping systems in Western Australia

Sharma, Darshan L.; Anderson, Walter K. - In: Agricultural Systems 123 (2014) C, pp. 22-33

high weed burden (ryegrass, Lolium rigidum L.), soil compaction, low pH and low CEC; and the remedies tested were repeated …

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Site-specific, real-time temperatures improve the accuracy of weed emergence predictions in direct-seeded rice systems

Lundy, M.E.; Hill, J.E.; van Kessel, C.; Owen, D.A.; … - In: Agricultural Systems 123 (2014) C, pp. 12-21

using site-specific, real-time temperatures to predict weed emergence at the regional scale can improve the timing of weed … to predict weed emergence would have improved the timing of weed management by as much as 14days for smallflower umbrella …

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Reinforcement learning-based design of sampling policies under cost constraints in Markov random fields: Application to weed map reconstruction

Bonneau, Mathieu; Gaba, Sabrina; Peyrard, Nathalie; … - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 72 (2014) C, pp. 30-44

providing ecological services has been well established. Innovative weed management policies have to be designed to handle this … weed species. The issues involved in building probabilistic models of spatial processes as well as plausible maps of the … applied to the problem of weed sampling for mapping. MRF offer a powerful representation for reasoning on large sets of random …

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Applying search theory to determine the feasibility of eradicating an invasive population in natural environments

Cacho, Oscar J.; Hester, Susan M.; Spring, Daniel - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 51 (2007) 4

on a set of weed scenarios in a natural environment, involving different combinations of plant longevity, seed longevity …

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