Flora and Fauna Changes During Conversion from Conventional to Organic Farming

Table 2.1.   Schematic summary of the analyses of weed density, proportion of flowering weed plants and species richness. P-values are given for explanatory factors included in the reduced model. Grey areas indicate factors not included in the full model. r2 for the reduced model is given in brackets. Weed density   (r2=0.93) (n=30) Proportion of flowering weed plants (r2=0.93) (n=24) Species richness (r2=0.86) (n=30) Species number spring 0.044 Weed density spring <0.0001 Weed density <0.0001 Period <0.0001 Year(Period) 0.014 0.099 Crop 0.0099 Crop×Period 0.014 <0.0001 Field 0.012 Dosage 0.059 Dosage×Period 0.011 Dosage×Crop Dosage×Field Dosage×Crop×Period