Weeds in Cover Crops: Context and Management Considerations

Cover crops are increasingly being adopted to provide multiple ecosystem services such as improving soil health, managing nutrients, and decreasing erosion. It is not uncommon for weeds emerge in become a part of cover crop plant community. Since the role cropping supplement service provisioning, we were interested assessing impacts on provisioning. To our knowledge, no research has examined how may impact provision disservices. Here, review disservices associated with annual agroecosystems present two case studies from United States illustrate growing fall-planted can ground cover, decrease potential losses, effectively manage nitrogen. We argue that certain circumstances, enhance In other herbicide-resistant weeds, should be managed limit weed biomass fecundity. Based current literature, conclude extent which allowed grow largely context-dependent.