Sentences with monoculture
mon·o·cul·ture
M m - Soil degradation due to sugar-cane monoculture and pesticides are the most serious problems.
- The fields flourished but with such vast areas of monoculture, farmers had to use massive amounts of chemical pesticides.
- The surroundings are of heather, not some extreme monoculture, but a pattern with grasses and bilberry.
- This huge monoculture is covering most of the middle West and a lot of the rest of the country like a second great American lawn.
- Reports from the West Indies during the second half of the century indicate the steady advance of sugar cultivation, although sugar monoculture was certainly not the case in these islands.
- Heirloom plants can also help buck the trend of monoculture, in which one variety is grown in vast fields.
- Populations fluctuated with the extent of monoculture, choice of cultivars, and extent of parasites.
- When the native species is suppressed, the area becomes a monoculture of purple loosestrife.
- The necessity for crop protection emerged with agriculture not because of any practice of monoculture but because crops were now being grown in areas outside where they originated.
- Detailed records demonstrate the extent of buffel invasion producing a ground cover monoculture in richer soil areas.
- They rotate their crops, thereby helping the soil to recover from centuries of monoculture under sugarcane.
- Comparisons between individual P. lanceolata or B. napus plants in monoculture and interspecific competition were made.
- Wine prices collapsed and in Languedoc, which had gone over to wine monoculture, there was a massive peasant revolt in the summer of 1907.
- B. madritensis also respired significantly less in monoculture than in mixed culture, but the difference was apparent immediately after labelling.
- Today's trends in agriculture continue to be driven by monoculture and profit driven cropping.
- After a while, heather monoculture is broken by an intake field and our path leads to a shallow valley that is a mosaic of ground-cover greens and is curlew country.