Integrated Weed Management: A Shift towards More Sustainable and Holistic Practices.

Weed management is experiencing a paradigm shift, emphasizing the need to strike a balance between ecosystem services and the disservices offered by weeds. Although precision weed control has the potential to reduce herbicide usage by targeting weeds or patches more effectively and minimizing its application to surrounding areas, it does not contribute significantly to the progress of integrated weed management. 10.1111/j.1445-6664.2007.00249.x 13 Kudsk P. Advances in Integrated Weed Management1st ed.; Burley Dodds Science Publishing: Cambridge, UK. 2022 14 Korres N.E., Burgos N.R., Travlos I., Vurro M., Gitsopoulos T.K., Varanasi V., Duke S.O., Kudsk P., Brabham C., Rous C.E. New directions for integrated weed management: Modern technologies, tools and knowledge discovery. Ecologically-based weed management focuses on understanding the dynamics of weed populations, their interactions with the surrounding environment, and the contribution of weeds to ecosystem services [[16], [18]]. [Extracted from the article]