Susceptibility of the early growth stages of volunteer oilseed rape to invertebrate predation
Chemical and agronomical control of volunteer plants is difficult, especially in reduced-input cropping systems where feeding by natural herbivores may become an important cause of their mortality.The consumption of the early growth stages of winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.ssp.napus) by five species of ground-surface invertebrates abundant i