Look up: Monoculture


  1. Monoculture
    While the farms of antiquity grew many sorts of plant and animal on the same location, modern factory farming involves the cultivation of a single species, to the exclusion of all other forms of life. This is called monoculture.
    Found op http://www.kcpc.usyd.edu.au/discovery/glossary-all.html

  2. Monoculture
    The agricultural practice of cultivating crops consisting of genetically similar organisms.
    Found op http://filebox.vt.edu/cals/cses/chagedor/glossary.html

  3. Monoculture
    The growing of a single crop species continuously or in successive seasons over a wide area.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  4. Monoculture
    Planting the same crop in the same field year after year with no crop rotation.
    Found op http://www.lethamshank.co.uk/glossary/glossary.php?letter=M

  5. Monoculture
    A large area covered by a single species (or, for crops, a single variety) of plant; or, in experiments, plants of the same species grown alone without any other species.
    Found op http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Townsend/Glossary/GlossaryM.html

  6. monoculture
    The agricultural practice of cultivating crops consisting of geneticallysimilar organisms. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?monoculture

  7. monoculture
    noun the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=monoculture

  8. monoculture
    (from the article `agricultural technology`) The practice of growing the same crop each year on a given acreage, monoculture, has not been generally successful in the past, because nonlegume ... ...of imported manufactures with domestic products served as powerful disincentives to economic diversifi...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/113

  9. monoculture
    monoculture The cultivation of a single crop or species.
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1329/4

  10. Monoculture
    Monoculture is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop or plant species over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years. It is widely used in modern industrial agriculture and its implementation has allowed for large harvests from minimal labor. However, this ra...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture



  1. monoculture
    An environment that has a single species of animal or plant dominant, usually associated with the artificial environments created by intensive agriculture
    Found op http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/glossary/view_glossarylist.html?term=m

  2. Monoculture
    The planting, cultivation, and harvesting of a single species of crop in a specified area.
    Found op http://www.electromn.com/glossary/m.htm

  3. monoculture
    The planting, cultivation, and harvesting of a single species of crop in a specified area.
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/AE_monoculture.html

  4. MONOCULTURE
    A stand of plants containing only one species, such as a cornfield, or a wetland completely overtaken by reed canary grass.
    Found op http://www.neonaturalist.com/nature/nature_glossary.html

  5. monoculture
    Farming system where only one crop is grown. In developing world countries this is often a cash crop, grown on plantations, for example sugar and coffee. Cereal crops in the industrialized world are also frequently grown on a monoculture basis, for example wheat in the Canadian prairies. Monoculture...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0034814.html

  6. monoculture
    the intensive or protracted culture of a single species of plant or animal.
    Found op http://www.seafriends.org.nz/books/glossary.htm

  7. monoculture
    The growth of only one species in a given area; such as a cornfield or other agricultural field.
    Found op http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookglossm.html

  8. Monoculture
    [computer science] In the field of computer science, monoculture is a term used to describe a community of computers, all running identical software. All the computer systems in the community have the same vulnerabilities, and, like agricultural monocultures, are subject to catastrophic fail...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture_(computer_science)

  9. Monoculture
    a system that contains very little diversity
    Found op http://www.njwildlifetrails.org/OutontheTrails/GlossaryofNaturerelatedTerms

  10. monoculture
    the practice of producing or growing one single crop over a wide area.
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_environmental_science

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