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monoculture
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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.
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Monoculture
The agricultural practice of cultivating crops consisting of genetically similar organisms.
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Monoculture
The growing of a single crop species continuously or in successive seasons over a wide area.
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Monoculture
Planting the same crop in the same field year after year with no crop rotation.
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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.
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monoculture
The agricultural practice of cultivating crops consisting of geneticallysimilar organisms. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?monoculture
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monoculture
noun the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)
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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
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monoculture
monoculture The cultivation of a single crop or species.
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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
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monoculture
An environment that has a single species of animal or plant dominant, usually associated with the artificial environments created by intensive agriculture
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Monoculture
The planting, cultivation, and harvesting of a single species of crop in a specified area.
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monoculture
The planting, cultivation, and harvesting of a single species of crop in a specified area.
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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
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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...
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monoculture
the intensive or protracted culture of a single species of plant or animal.
Found op http://www.seafriends.org.nz/books/glossary.htm
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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
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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)
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Monoculture
a system that contains very little diversity
Found op http://www.njwildlifetrails.org/OutontheTrails/GlossaryofNaturerelatedTerms
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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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