Christoph von RedwitzJulius Kühn-Institut · Institute for Plant Protection in Field Crops and Grassland
Christoph von Redwitz
PhD
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Introduction
I am working on biodiversity on fields with a focus on floral diversity: the weeds. Especially the weeds and weed composition on conventional managed fields are of interest for me, because I am convinced that those are key to develop the biodiversity on fields. I have a strong interest in statistical methods and R-programming. Until now I focused on weeds in maize.
Additional affiliations
March 2019 - present
October 2015 - February 2019
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Weeds and Biodiversity
October 2010 - December 2014
Publications
Publications (16)
Site‐specific weed management (SSWM) is increasingly employed to reduce herbicide inputs. Incorporating functional traits of weed species allows for the selection of SSWM methods that effectively reduce the abundance of weeds with a high competitive potential (disservice) while preserving weeds that provide beneficial ecosystem services (service)....
Introduction: Competition by weeds is a severe threat to agricultural crops. While these days the broadcast of herbicides over the entire field is common praxis, new technologies promise to reduce chemical output by reducing the area sprayed. The maximum precision would be a single plant treatment. This precision will allow a single plant managemen...
Over the last 30 years, many studies have surveyed weed vegetation on arable land. The ‘Arable Weeds and Management in Europe’ (AWME) database is a collection of 36 of these surveys and the associated management data. Here, we review the challenges associated with combining disparate datasets and explore some of the opportunities for future researc...
Questions
Two scientific disciplines, vegetation science and weed science, study arable weed vegetation, which has seen a strong diversity decrease in Europe over the last decades. We compared two collections of plot‐based vegetation records originating from these two disciplines. The aim was to check the suitability of the collections for joint an...
Zusammenfassung Das Klima und die Witterung sind prägende Faktoren für den Pflanzenschutz. Bereits vor 100 Jahren haben sich Wissenschaftler im Nachrichtenblatt für den Deutschen Pflanzenschutzdienst dieser Thematik gewidmet. Die Aus-wirkungen des Klimawandels sind ambivalent und es wird insgesamt zu einer Veränderung des Schaderreger-spektrums kom...
“Arable Weeds and Management in Europe” is a collection of weed vegetation records from arable fields in Europe, initiated within the Working Group Weeds and Biodiversity of the European Weed Research Society (EWRS). Vegetation-plot data from this scientific community was not previously contributed to databases. We aim to prove the usefulness of co...
Weed management is a challenge for farmers worldwide, and the problem is exacerbated by the spread of weed herbicide resistance. Simulation models that combine population dynamics and genetics are valuable tools for predicting the impact of competing management options on weed density, allele frequency, and phenotypic resistance levels. The new R p...
The need to preserve and enhance biodiversity in agricultural landscapes is widely accepted. In the case of maize, there is a chance to combine production and biodiversity in the same field by microsegregation: wildflowers are sown between the future maize rows after harvest of the last main crop. These wildflower strips provide flowers and vegetat...
Questions
Does the mere introduction of maize into the crop sequence change the weed species community? Does a growing share of maize cropping lead to a more problematic weed species community? Do we generally have to expect problematic weed species communities when maize is continuously cultivated?
Location
Northern Germany.
Methods
Weeds in 224...
Ecosystem services have received increasing attention in life sciences, but only a limited amount of quantitative data are available concerning the ability of weeds to provide these services. Following an expert focus group on this topic, a systematic search for articles displaying evidence of weeds providing regulating ecosystem services was perfo...
Der Klimawandel und die Globalisierung der Märkte beeinflussen zunehmend unsere Gesellschaft. Ein zukunftsfähiges, nachhaltiges Landmanagement hat diesen Entwicklungen Rechnung zu tragen. Es muss sich neu ausrichten und dabei seine Ziele und Maßnahmen so konzipieren, dass es flexibel auf sich ändernde Rahmenbedingungen reagieren kann. Im Verbundpro...
Weed species easily establish in crops with a similar life cycle. Especially mono-cropping provides best conditions for such weeds. In maize this is true for Echinochloa crus-galli, which is a C4 plant and one of the worst weeds worldwide. In Germany E. crus-galli is one of the few typical weed species in maize. When recurrent herbicide treatments...
During the last decade, maize has become the crop with the second largest acreage in Germany. Therefore, agricultural advisors and the plant protection sector are interested in an overview of the weed species composition in maize fields, their determining factors and trends. From 2001 to 2009, a weed survey was conducted in 1460 maize fields throug...
The area cultivated with maize in Germany is continuously increasing throughout the last years. Nevertheless weeds in maize get small notice, probably since they are still easy to control. If maize cropping frequency and intensity continue to increase, problems with adapted weeds are likely to occur. To face these effects, it is worthwhile to know...
Data sets, comprising information on weed densities of 1103 maize fields in Germany as well as their crop management practices and site-specific characteristics, were analysed. The objectives were to describe the joint occurrence of weeds and to asses the influence of crop management on weed species composition.Per field, weed densities were assess...
