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Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Weed Seedling Populations Using Geostatistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Gregg A. Johnson,
David A. Mortensen and
Carol A. Gotway
Gregg A. Johnson
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron, Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0915
David A. Mortensen
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron, Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0915
Carol A. Gotway
Affiliation:
Dep. Biom., Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0915
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Abstract

An intensive field survey of an eastern Nebraska corn and soybean field was conducted to characterize the spatial structure and temporal stability of broadleaf weed seedling populations over two growing seasons. Anisotropy, the effect of direction on the relationship between observations, is present in the semivariogram for the velvetleaf and common sunflower populations in 1992 and 1993. The directional trends in aggregation are visible in kriged maps as elliptical shapes oriented east to west across the study area. In addition, there are two distinct zones of aggregation from north to south. These two distinct areas of aggregation are reflected as a ‘plateau’ in the north-south semivariogram. The distance over which this plateau extends indicates that the shape or size of the patch is contracting in the north-south direction (perpendicular to the crop row). The slope of the semivariogram in the east-west direction (aligned with the crop row) remains consistent from 1992 to 1993 suggesting that the shape of the patch is not changing. For sunflower populations, the slope of the north-south empirical semivariogram changes at 20 m, similar to the velvetleaf population semivariograms. This change, however, is reflected as a downward trend in the empirical semivariogram. The distance over which this trend occurs increases from 1992 to 1993 suggesting that seedling patch size was smaller in 1993 compared to 1992. Weed seedling establishment resulting from seed dispersal, differential seed and seedling mortality, or emergence may have resulted in the observed patch dynamics.

Keywords

Common sunflower, Helianthus annuus L. ♯ HELANcorn, Zea mays L.soybean, Glycine max(L.) Merr.velvetleaf, Abutilon theophrasti Medicus ♯ ABUTHKrigingvariographyweed ecology

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Weed Science , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , September 1996, pp. 704 - 710
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Copyright © 1996 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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